Traumatic brain injury (TBI): clinical features

Evidence-based neurology checklist on traumatic brain injury (tbi): clinical features: Diagnostic features Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) score of 13-15 in the first hour The GCS does not fall <13 subsequently There is impaired or lost consciousness lasting <20 minutes There is post traumatic amnesia…

Diagnostic features

  • Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) score of 13-15 in the first hour
  • The GCS does not fall <13 subsequently
  • There is impaired or lost consciousness lasting <20 minutes
  • There is post traumatic amnesia (PTA) lasting <24 hours
  • There is usually no structural abnormality on brain imaging

Clinical features: headaches

Clinical features: others

Predictors of severe TBI

Pathological features

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References

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