Mild Traumatic Brain Injuries and the issues that they present.
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Brain Injury
Let’s say that you are involved in a personal injury accident in San Francisco – maybe a trucking accident, or car accident, or even a serious fall and you suffer a brain injury. 
Wouldn’t it be great if there was a device that first-responders or paramedics could use to determine if you had suffered a traumatic brain injury and the level of severity? In a word – yes.
Well, a company in the south is currently working under a federal grant to develop just that – a brain injury detection device. Here is how it would work: When you injure your brain there are certain indicators or biomarkers in the blood. The device would analyze the blood for these markers in rapid order using only a pinprick or very small sample of blood. The device would be small – possibly hand-held and would indicate the degree of injury — none, mild, moderate or severe.
The company is Fayetteville-based SFC Fluidic. And if the device is successful, it could benefit not only San Francisco injury victims but brain injury victims across the country.
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