Emergency assessment and management of head injury in adults
Description: Management of head injury in the community, including an outline of the out of hospital resuscitation by paramedical or medical staff using advanced equipment and techniques
Publet Introduction:
Publet Introduction:
Definitions:
- head injury is defined as traumatic injury to the head or brain
- for the purposes of this pathway, we consider adults to be those over age 18 years
Epidemiology:
About 250 patients per 100,000 population are admitted to hospital in the UK annually following a head injury (approximately 10-20% of all A&E attendances). Only 20-40% of those admitted following a head injury stay in hospital for more than 48 hours and only 5-10% require neurosurgical transfe. 5% of severe traumatic brain injury will have cervical spine injury
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| Target Setting | Accident and emergency departments |
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| Provenance | 7.No provenance has been assigned (default value) |
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| Sources | Based on http://eng.mapofmedicine.com |
| References | Jennett B. Epidemiology of head injury. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 1996; 60: 362-69. |