New Emergency Room Guidelines For Mild Traumatic Brain Injury
As Georgia injury lawyers we, at Finch McCranie, LLP, often see victims of automobile accidents and trucking accidents who sustain trauma to the head. The care they get in the minutes and hours following can be crucial to their recovery. Often important signs of mild traumatic brain injury (TBI) are overlooked. Recently the American College of Emergency Physicians in collaboration with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) revised the clinical guidelines for mild brain injuries. Those new guidelines are expected to lead to better patient outcomes for the more than one million patients who visit the emergency department every year for traumatic brain injury or concussion. It is well know by qualified medical professionals that people with traumatic brain injuries may appear to be normal and their symptoms may be mild but there can be hidden dangers. TBI’s can also lead to significant, life-long impairments that prevent a person’s ability to function both physically and mentally. The revised guidelines are designed to help insure that patients even with mild TBI’s are identified early and receive the care they need.
