It was difficult to reach a consensus on all epidemiological findings across the 23 published European studies because of critical differences in methods employed across the reports. We highly recommend the development of research guidelines to standardize definitional, case finding, and data reporting parameters to help establish a more precise description and hence utility of the epidemiology of TBI in Europe.

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The current practice in many centres is different from published papers. Decompression is common over the age of 65 years, is associated with haematoma evacuation and often the bone flaps are inadequate in terms of size.

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Obese passengers are more likely to suffer a more severe head trauma after a frontal collision. Further studies with computational models are needed to determine the precise role of BMI on brain injury-related biomechanical metrics.