Guidelines for Managing Minor Head Injuries

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Globally, thousands of people sustain head injury everyday. Early diagnosis and appropriate management improves outcome but is sometimes more difficult to achieve than might be imagined,injury to the brain is most likely to result in deat h or permanent disability. Estimates of traumatic brain injury (TB1) incidence, severity, and cost reflect enormous losses to indivi duals, their families, and society. Authors prospectively studied 485 consecutive patients of traumatic brain injury, out of which 280 with GCS of 1 3, 4, and 1 5 were subjected to routine early CT scan of head after 4 hours of reporting to Emergency Patients with penetrating head injury were excluded.