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How neurosurgeons can help to prevent traumatic brain injury
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Autoren
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Martin U. Schuhmann
- Sektion Pädiatrische Neurochirurgie, Klinik für Neurochirurgie, Universitätsklinikum Tübingen
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Karl Binder
- ehemals Landespolizeipräsidium, Innenministerium Baden-Württemberg, Stuttgart
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Henrik Stampe
- freier Drehbuchautor und Regisseur, Berlin
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Andreas Stäble, Dieter Speiser
- Landeskriminalamt Baden-Württemberg, Zentralstelle Prävention, Koordinierungs- und Entwicklungsstelle Verkehrsunfallprävention (KEV),Tübingen
| Veröffentlicht: | 2. Juni 2015 |
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Objective: Bicycle traffic is increasing. This development increases the number of bicycle accidents with a high number of traumatic brain injuries as the leading cause of disability or death. In general neurosurgeons treat and do not prevent traumatic brain injury. However, neurosurgical care tries to prevent further injury. Primary injury can neither be repaired nor can secondary injury be totally avoided. Under these boundary conditions neurosurgery might help traumatic brain injury most effectively by advancing preventive measures and activities.
Method: During our "Children's University" courses we realized that making kids aware that everything comes from a vulnerable and unrepairable "miracle pudding" made them want to protect their brain themselves. We also realized that in contemporary helmet campaigns, the brain was not in the centre. To be able to make as much children (and adults) aware of the vulnerability and grandiosity of their brain, we initiated a collaboration to create a far reaching bicycle helmet campaign with the brain at ist centre.
Results: A team of 20 prevention experts was formed with strong expert input by neurosurgery regarding the medical background. The campaign was named "Schütze Dein BESTES". Over 3 years an internet platform and a DVD was build in parallel, including biomedical background information, powerpoint presentation for school teachers, "cooking receipts" for experiments, interviews with victims, technical information and injury statistics etc etc. We created videos explaining the campaign as well as confronting adolescents with the effects of TBI on their main topics "love and future". The campaign was launched in 2012, has reached on DVD all schools in our state. It won a state wide and a nation wide prevention award. Several regional campaign projects are conducted every year.
Conclusions: The campaign shows that neurosurgeons can make a difference in mediating and pushing the core of the problem, the vulnerable omnipotent brain, into the centre of a traumatic brain injury prevention campaign. Without input from neurosurgeons, who are among the few who really know whats happens in TBI, the campaign would not be so successful. Currently we are pushing towards a better reach into the adult world, where still most bicycle head injury victims are coming from.
