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Assessment Tool Helps Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) Diagnosis
Colleagues,
The Department of Defense (DOD) took a major step forward in the testing, diagnosis and treatment of traumatic brain injury (TBI) last year when it issued guidance calling for all the services to conduct baseline pre-deployment neurocognitive assessments.
The guidance, issued May 28, 2008, called for service members to receive an assessment that measures cognitive performance in areas most likely affected by mild TBI prior to deployment. Individual results from the assessment serve as a baseline in monitoring changes in a service member’s cognitive function.
The neurocognitive assessment tool selected by DoD to accomplish this requirement was the Automated Neuropsychological Assessment Metrics (ANAM). The ANAM is a computerized assessment tool which measures attention, judgment, memory and thinking ability...
... With baseline data available for comparison with post-event ANAM assessments, medical providers are armed with important objective information that can be used in conjunction with other clinical findings in diagnosing TBI, even in its mild form...
... According to data released on April 15, 2009, by the Defense and Veteran Brain Injury Center (DVBIC), 231,925 service members have been administered the ANAM ... Although ANAM has proved to be valuable tool, DoD continues to look for ways to improve the testing, diagnosis and treatment of TBI...
Read on at: http://www.health.mil/Press/Release.aspx?ID=1010
The Department of Defense (DOD) took a major step forward in the testing, diagnosis and treatment of traumatic brain injury (TBI) last year when it issued guidance calling for all the services to conduct baseline pre-deployment neurocognitive assessments.
The guidance, issued May 28, 2008, called for service members to receive an assessment that measures cognitive performance in areas most likely affected by mild TBI prior to deployment. Individual results from the assessment serve as a baseline in monitoring changes in a service member’s cognitive function.
The neurocognitive assessment tool selected by DoD to accomplish this requirement was the Automated Neuropsychological Assessment Metrics (ANAM). The ANAM is a computerized assessment tool which measures attention, judgment, memory and thinking ability...
... With baseline data available for comparison with post-event ANAM assessments, medical providers are armed with important objective information that can be used in conjunction with other clinical findings in diagnosing TBI, even in its mild form...
... According to data released on April 15, 2009, by the Defense and Veteran Brain Injury Center (DVBIC), 231,925 service members have been administered the ANAM ... Although ANAM has proved to be valuable tool, DoD continues to look for ways to improve the testing, diagnosis and treatment of TBI...
Read on at: http://www.health.mil/Press/Release.aspx?ID=1010
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