SAN FRANCISCO (KCBS RADIO) – For the last half century, Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) cases have been handled by mostly the same method by medical practitioners. Now, a group of researchers at UCSF are working to change that.
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“With a lot of the things that have happened over the last 10 to 20 years, we’ve had the development of blood-based biomarkers. Several years ago, we were able to get an FDA [U.S. Food and Drug Administration] test cleared to help us to manage patients with traumatic brain injury and rule out the need for a head CT,” UCSF neurosurgeon Geoff Manley explained to KCBS Radio’s Bret Burkhart on the latest “As Prescribed” episode…