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Excellence in Prehospital Injury Care (EPIC)

Why is the EPIC Project important?Each year, an estimated 1.7 million people sustain a Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) annually. 
Of them:
  • 52,000 die,
  • 275,000 are hospitalized, and
  • 1.365 million, nearly 80%, are treated and released from an emergency department.

TBI is a contributing factor to a third (30.5%) of all injury-related deaths in the United States.1

There is growing evidence that the management of TBI in the early minutes after injury profoundly impacts outcome. EMS operates in the ultra-acute setting, usually providing the first care for TBI victims when treatment matters the most. Reports on implementation of evidence-based TBI treatment guidelines inside the hospital are very promising. However, no studies to date have evaluated their impact in the prehospital setting.

The EMS agencies of Arizona have already proven their ability to dramatically improve cardiac arrest survival and, thus, Arizona was selected by the National Institutes of Health to do the same with TBI.
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References

1. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), National Center for Injury Prevention and Control,http://www.cdc.gov/traumaticbraininjury/statistics.html Statistics for 2010.

Visit the EPIC TBI website for more information.


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  • Home
  • FIERCE Colleagues
    • Advisory Council >
      • Dr. Bentley Bobrow's Recent Published Papers
      • Dr. Zhixin Wu's Recent Published Papers
      • Dr. Sang Do Shin's Recent Published Papers
      • Dr. Hiroshi Nonogi's Published Papers
      • Dr. Ben Abella's Selected Published Papers
    • Visiting Fellows and Professors
  • CPR Videos
  • Training
    • Conferences >
      • Heart Rescue China 2016
      • CPR University 2016
      • A Call to Action
      • American Heart Association ReSS 2014
      • Asian Excellence in Prehospital Injury Care for Traumatic Brain Injury
      • ECCU 2014
      • ERC congress 2014
      • NAEMSP Annual Meeting January 2015
      • Penn interpretation of the European TTM trial
    • JAMA Cardiology
    • Prehospital Emergency Care 2016
    • Strategies to Improve Cardiac Arrest Survival
    • Courses >
      • Advanced HAZMAT Life Support (AHLS)
      • Arizona Resuscitation Academy - January 24, 2014
      • Dispatch CPR Training Module
      • HART at PENN
    • EPIC - Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) >
      • EPIC- TBI Training Videos
    • Events >
      • Korea Arizona Trauma Summit (KATSummit) 2013
    • Heart Rescue Project
    • Webinars >
      • Past Webinars >
        • Boosting CPR Quality
        • CARES Telephone-CPR Webinar
        • CPR Quality Matters - Dr. Ben Abella
        • EPIC TBI Update Webinar
        • High-Quality CPR Champion in your EMS and ED
        • High-Performance CPR Revolution
        • TTM with Dr. Niklas Nielsen
  • Partnerships
  • Contact Us