Will eye tracking change the way we diagnose and classify concussion and structural brain injury?

Abstract

Lee Schwamm's recent editorial in the New England Journal of Medicine lamented the failure of the PROTECT III and SYNAPSE clinical trials after recruitment of more than 2000 brain injured patients, despite their being 'exceptionally well designed and conducted' [1]. Both of these trials selected and stratified patients on the basis of Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) score and assessed outcome with extended Glasgow Outcome Scale Scores and secondary measures. ...