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Lead
University of Pennsylvania
With
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Age
18–65
Sex
ALL
Healthy volunteers
Accepted
You may be eligible if
1. Age 18-65, inclusive
2. History of non-penetrating TBI of at least moderate severity (defined by evidence of trauma-related neuroimaging abnormality on cranial computerized tomography (CT) scan.
3. High-velocity, high-impact injury mechanism consistent with diffuse axonal injury (e.g., motor vehicle accident, fall from height, etc.)
4. Immediate loss of consciousness (cases with delayed loss of consciousness due to expanding lesions will be excluded)
You may not be if
1. History of premorbid disabling neurological or psychiatric disease (such as epilepsy, brain tumors, meningitis, cerebral palsy, encephalitis, brain abscesses, vascular malformations, cerebrovascular disease, Alzheimer's disease, multiple sclerosis, HIV-encephalitis)
2. History of premorbid disability condition that would interfere with outcome assessments
7\. Prisoners, patients in police custody 8. Objective lung disease (PaCO2 at rest \> 50 mmHg or venous serum bicarbonate \> 26 mEg/L) based on any labs available for review from patient's clinical care. Note that these will not be checked solely for study purposes 9.Requiring portable oxygen at enrollment 10. Chronic heart failure, severe pulmonary disease 11. Current substance abuse that precludes participation and follow-up in the study, as determined by the study investigators 12. If there is medical or other disability that precludes completion of the study procedures as determined by the study investigators
