{"id":28114,"date":"2025-05-20T19:05:51","date_gmt":"2025-05-20T19:05:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=28114"},"modified":"2025-05-20T19:31:00","modified_gmt":"2025-05-20T19:31:00","slug":"a-new-system-aims-to-save-injured-brains-and-lives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=28114","title":{"rendered":"A New System Aims to Save Injured Brains and Lives"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Nearly 100 neurology experts collaborated on the creation of a new method of evaluating patients with traumatic brain injuries.<\/p>\n

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Dr. Geoffrey Manley, a neurosurgeon at the University of California, San Francisco, wants the medical establishment to change the way it deals with brain injuries. His work is motivated in part by what happened to a police officer he treated in 2002, just after completing his medical training.<\/p>\n

The man arrived at the emergency room unconscious, in a coma. He had been in a terrible car crash while pursuing a criminal.<\/p>\n

Two days later, Dr. Manley\u2019s mentor said it was time to tell the man\u2019s family there was no hope. His life support should be withdrawn. He should be allowed to die.<\/p>\n

Dr. Manley resisted. The patient\u2019s brain oxygen levels were encouraging. Seven days later the policeman was still in a coma. Dr. Manley\u2019s mentor again pressed him to talk to the man\u2019s family about withdrawing life support. Again, Dr. Manley resisted.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Ten days after the accident, the policeman began to come out of his coma. Three years later he was back at work and was named San Francisco Police Officer of the Month. In 2010, he was Police Officer of the Year<\/p>\n

\u201cThat case, and another like it,\u201d Dr. Manley said, \u201cchanged my practice.\u201d<\/p>\n

But little has changed in the world of traumatic brain injuries since Dr. Manley\u2019s patient woke up. Assessments of who will recover and how severely patients are injured are pretty much the same, which results in patients being told they \u201cjust\u201d have a concussion, who then have trouble getting care for recurring symptoms like memory lapses or headaches. And it results in some patients in the position of that policemen, who have their life support withdrawn when they might have recovered.<\/p>\n

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Nearly 100 neurology experts collaborated on the creation of a new method of evaluating patients with traumatic brain injuries.Dr. Geoffrey Manley, a neurosurgeon at the University of California, San Francisco, wants the medical establishment to change the way it deals with brain injuries. His work is motivated in part by what happened to a police officer he treated in 2002, just after completing his medical training.The man arrived at the emergency room unconscious, in a coma. He had been in a terrible car crash while pursuing a criminal.Two days later, Dr. Manley\u2019s mentor said it was time to tell the man\u2019s family there was no hope. His life support should be withdrawn. He should be allowed to die.Dr. Manley resisted. The patient\u2019s brain oxygen levels were encouraging. Seven days later the policeman was still in a coma. Dr. Manley\u2019s mentor again pressed him to talk to the man\u2019s family about withdrawing life support. Again, Dr. Manley resisted.Ten days after the accident, the policeman began to come out of his coma. Three years later he was back at work and was named San Francisco Police Officer of the Month. In 2010, he was Police Officer of the Year\u201cThat case, and another like it,\u201d Dr. Manley said, \u201cchanged my practice.\u201dBut little has changed in the world of traumatic brain injuries since Dr. Manley\u2019s patient woke up. Assessments of who will recover and how severely patients are injured are pretty much the same, which results in patients being told they \u201cjust\u201d have a concussion, who then have trouble getting care for recurring symptoms like memory lapses or headaches. And it results in some patients in the position of that policemen, who have their life support withdrawn when they might have recovered.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28116,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28114"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28117,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28114\/revisions\/28117"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/28116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}