Each year close to half a million children who suffer falls, assaults, motor vehicle or bicycle accidents, or sports injuries are admitted to emergency rooms in the US with a traumatic brain injury (TBI)-and among all types of injuries in young people, TBIs are most likely to cause permanent disability or death. Columbia's recently appointed chief of pediatric critical care and hospital medicine, Hülya Bayır, MD, has dedicated her career to understanding the brain's special vulnerability to injury, and what might be done to protect brain tissue in the hours and days after an accident.

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