India, Oct. 12 -- A national initiative led by Monash University researchers will bring together over 60 experts from across Australia to transform clinical care for Australians who experience moderate to severe traumatic brain injury (msTBI).
Extrapolating 2022 data from the Victorian State Trauma Outcome Registry and Monitoring Group, around 46 in 100,000 Australians will experience a new msTBI each year; that's around11,000 episodes annually.
Funding for Connect-TBI comes from the Medical Research Future Fund. The program - spearheaded by Chief Investigator Professor Belinda Gabbe, Head of Pre-hospital, Emergency and Trauma Research at Monash University's School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine - aims to deliver Australia's fir...