More than 40% of brain injury admissions to CUH involve alcohol

Researchers from CUH and University College Cork found "alcohol involvement" was reported in 41.4% of cases of traumatic brain injury.

Falls account for more than half of all patients attending Cork University Hospital with traumatic brain injuries, while four in every 10 cases involve some level of alcohol, according to new medical research.

A study of all patients attending the intensive care unit at CUH between 2013 and 2018 with a serious brain injury found 51.3% of cases resulted from some sort of fall.