Traumatic Brain Injury is the cause of death for Actress Natasha Richardson
Alexandra Fuentes, Milwaukee Wisconsin
Tony Award-winning actress Natasha Richardson passed away Wednesday March 18, 2009 at Lenox Hill Hospital in Manhattan.
While vacationing in Montreal, she suffered from an epidural hematoma caused by a fall she took while skiing.
According to the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, 1.4 million people have suffered from a traumatic brain injury; 50,000 have died; 235,000 were hospitalized and 1.1 million were treated and released from an emergency department.
The leading causes of traumatic brain injuries are motor vehicle-traffic crashes (20%), struck by / against events (19%), assaults (11%), and falls (28%).
The signs and symptoms can be subtle and at times may not appear until days or weeks following the event that caused the injury. In Natasha Richardson’s case, her symptoms appeared hours later after her fall. She was 45 years young.
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