{"id":161,"date":"2016-03-23T20:31:00","date_gmt":"2016-03-24T01:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/safety-committee\/?page_id=161"},"modified":"2023-06-07T08:35:46","modified_gmt":"2023-06-07T13:35:46","slug":"march","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/safety-committee\/march\/","title":{"rendered":"March"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-modular-content-collection><h2>March is Brain Injury Awareness Month<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) Facts<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>TBI contributes to 30.5% of all injury-related deaths in the U.S.<\/li>\n<li>Children age 0-4 years, older adolescents age 15-19 years, and adults age 65 and older are most likely to sustain a TBI.<\/li>\n<li>Children age 0-14 years account for 474,000 emergency room visits for brain injuries per year.<\/li>\n<li>Adults age 75 and older have the highest rates of TBI hospitalization and death.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>TBI by Gender<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In every age group, TBI rates are higher for males than for females.<\/li>\n<li>Males age 0-4 years have the highest rates of TBI-related emergency room visits, hospitalizations, and deaths combined.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>TBI by Cause<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Falls are the leading cause of TBI. Rates are highest for children age 0-4 years and for adults age 75 and older. Assault accounts for 10% of annual cases.<\/li>\n<li>Falls result in the greatest number of TBI-related ER visits (523,043) and hospitalizations (62,334)<\/li>\n<li>Motor vehicle traffic injury is the leading cause of TBI-related death. Rates are highest for adults age 20-24 years.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>TBI Prevention<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Always wear a seat belt in a motor vehicle. A small child should always sit in the back seat of a car and be secured in child safety seats or booster seats that are appropriate for their size and weight.<\/li>\n<li>Don&#8217;t drive under the influence of alcohol or drugs, including prescription medications that can impair the ability to drive.<\/li>\n<li>Wear a helmet while riding a bicycle, skateboard, motorcycle, snowmobile, or all-terrain vehicle. Also wear appropriate head protection when playing contact sports, skiing, skating, snowboarding, or riding a horse.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!-- begin-migrated-from-panel-builder --><!-- end-migrated-from-panel-builder --><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>March is Brain Injury Awareness Month Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) Facts TBI contributes to 30.5% of all injury-related deaths in the U.S. Children age 0-4 years, older adolescents age 15-19 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":110,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-161","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/safety-committee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/safety-committee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/safety-committee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/safety-committee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/110"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/safety-committee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/safety-committee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1015,"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/safety-committee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/161\/revisions\/1015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/safety-committee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}