How to Distinguish Moderate Brain Injury from Severe Brain Injury

Traumatic brain injury, abbreviated to TBI, a result of some kind of permanent neurobiological impairment which can inflict lifelong deficits to a variety of degrees, can range in scope from mild to moderate to severe.
Moderate brain injury is defined as some kind of brain injury caused by a loss of consciousness from twelve minutes to six hours and a Glasgow Coma Scale of nine to twelve
Severe brain injury is defined as some kind of brain injury caused by a loss of consciousness of longer than six hours and a Glasgow Coma Scale of three to eight
Clinically, to distinguish moderate brain injury from severe brain injury generally depends on followings:
Severity of initial brain injury
Functions affected
Areas of functions which are not affected by traumatic brain injury
Meaning of dysfunctions to the patient

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