The Brain Trauma Foundation has made many advances in education. Of great significance was the establishment of the first set of international Guidelines education and patient tracking sites in Eastern Europe with a grant from the Open Society Institute. It was demonstrated at these sites that it is possible to reduce deaths significantly when there is compliance with the program goals.
The BTF created the first training program to improve care before the patient arrives at the hospital. TBI care was implemented in a comprehensive, nationwide educational directive designed to reach 600,000 ambulance personnel to properly treat TBI patients en-route to hospital, based on the TBI Guidelines.
BTF created the first New York TBI State trauma center tracking and compliance network in conjunction with the New York Department of Health. Comparable networks have been established in other locations in the United States, Colombia and in India.
