August 5, 2019 Several attendees from the Working Group got together after the Washington DC meeting in 2016 and started applying for grants to fund this work. The first (a BAA to the Dept. of Defense) was not successful, but a second proposal was. We responded to an RFA on precision management of TBI and …
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November 18, 2015 We are pleased to announce the endorsement of the Working Group by the Brain Trauma Foundation. For 30 years, the Brain Trauma Foundation has been conducting innovative clinical research and developing evidence-based guidelines that improve outcomes for the millions of people who suffer from traumatic brain injuries every year. From concussion to …
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November 13, 2015 The second TED meeting was held on November 9-10 in Napa, California. Better designed clinical trials leading to the first successful treatments for traumatic brain injury are the goals of the TBI Endpoints Development (TED) Initiative. See https://tbiendpoints.ucsf.edu/. TED is part of the TRACK-TBI project. The meeting was led by Dr. Geoff …
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November 5, 2015 Dr. Anna Rodriguez presented a poster at the Connected Health 2015 Symposium in Boston, October 29-30. The poster was titled Review of Medical Device Connectivity in Neurocritical Care. To our knowledge, it is the first publication that reviews the quality of medical device communications. On the last day of the meeting, Anna …
October 15, 2015 The inaugural meeting of the Working Group was held on Tuesday, October 6 the day before the start of the annual meeting of the Neurocritical Care Society in Scottsdale, AZ. About 60 people packed a small room at the start of the meeting and about the same were there at the end …
August 5, 2015 We are pleased to announce that One Mind (www.onemind.org) has officially endorsed our Working Group and its mission. Our two organizations are closely aligned in what we attempt to accomplish. The slogan on their website “We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking that we used when we created them” applies …
July 6, 2015 For several years Draper Labs (Cambridge, MA), under the leadership of Len Polizzotto, organized a group of experts in neurocritical care and informatics for the purpose of addressing many of the problems seen in this field. The iniative, called IMEDS, developed an architecture and concepts to improve informatics in neurocritical care. Due …
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October 7-10, 2015, Scottsdale, AZ The Neurocritical Care Society (NCS) is a multidisciplinary, international organization whose mission is to improve outcomes for patients with life-threatening neurological illnesses. Through each annual meeting, consistent efforts are made towards the discovery and communication of the highest quality of care for patients with critical neurological conditions throughout the world. …