Army Post to Test for Brain Injuries

[Barrett808]

Source: Associated Press

FORT CARSON, Colo. - The Army, faced with thousands of cases of brain injury from the Iraq war, will soon begin testing brain scanning equipment in hopes of finding a more accurate way to identify hard-to-diagnose wounds.

Fort Carson hopes to get a new scanning camera in two weeks that uses gamma rays and radioisotopes, Col. John Cho, commander of the Evans Army Community Hospital at Fort Carson, said Tuesday.

To date, the Army has not extensively used neuroimaging equipment to detect brain injuries in returning soldiers because not enough testing has been done to judge the technology's effectiveness.

The move to try to detect brain injuries comes after a recent study at Fort Carson found that 18 percent of troops who had been to Iraq - 2,392 of 13,400 - suffered at least some brain damage from the blasts of improvised explosive devices.

"They are taking head injuries seriously," said Dr. P. Stephen Macedo, a Washington, D.C.-based neurologist and former doctor with the Veterans Administration.


Read more: http://www.military.com/NewsContent/0,13319,133523,00.html

[babylonsister]

1. I'm happy to read someone's doing SOMETHING! nt

[youngdem]

2. Bullshit window dressing. There AIN'T NO WAY they are gonna pull 18% of soldiers out of theater

because of some injury it takes a fancy isotope machine to find - not when we are fighting a war.

That's going to be the attitude off camera. And that percentage is LOW, especially when you consider that the percentage will be MUCH, MUCH higher among the grunts who actually do the fighting.

This is window dressing for the families and the anti-war crowd.

[IChing]

3. Start with the Commander in Thief so you can "Give my chance a plan to work"

Maybe when he blanked out eating that pretzel would explain it.

video: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=385x24655

In all seriousness I hope they get enough scanners all across the nation for this.
We had a check list for students in special ed.

Mild TBI symptoms:


headache,
mental confusion,
lightheadedness,
dizziness,
double vision, blurred vision, or tired eyes,
ringing in the ears,
bad taste in the mouth,
fatigue or lethargy,
a change in sleep patterns,
behavioral or mood changes, and
trouble with memory, concentration, attention, or thinking

[Monkeyman]

4. Dam Beat Me To It thanks

If you think they will do anything. Well I have A Lake in Chicago to For Sale