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On July 15, 2016, I was interviewed by Anthony Sarchiapone from McGraw Hill’s medical education podcast series. The focus of the interview was on what new medical students need to know about auto accident survivors when assisting them in the emergency room. A recording of the entire interview can be found here, on this website—DrJamesZender.com. In this blog I will highlight some of the points made in the interview. Auto accident trauma is a world pandemic. Over 50 million people are injured worldwide each year and [...]

Patients who have been involved in a serious car accident need to be aware of the possibility of injury to their brain. Surprisingly, this is often overlooked. According to the Brain Injury Association, 2.4 million people in the United States sustain a traumatic brain injury each year, and over one third of those are due to car crashes. Approximately 75 percent of head injuries are considered concussions or mild traumatic brain injuries. We have made major advances in the neurosciences in the past two decades [...]