title: Traumatic brain injury in 2014. Progress, failures and new approaches for TBI research.
abstract: The past year saw the 40th anniversary of the Glasgow Coma Scale, which continues to be effective for monitoring patients with traumatic brain injury. Three new clinical trials were completed, but none revealed beneficial interventions. These failures have prompted exploration of more-subtle therapy targets, novel disease classifications and collaborative research paradigms.
authors.affiliation: Division of Anaesthesia, University of Cambridge, Box 93, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge CB2 2QQ, UK.
authors.forename: David K
authors.initials: DK
authors.lastname: Menon
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurosurgery, University Hospital Antwerp and University of Antwerp, Wilrijkstraat 10, 2650 Edegem, Belgium.
authors.forename: Andrew I R
authors.initials: AI
authors.lastname: Maas
mesh_terms: D001930:Brain Injuries / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000188:drug therapy; D015600:Glasgow Coma Scale; D006801:Humans; D016032:Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic; D012106:Research; D012720:Severity of Illness Index