Resources for mild, moderate and severe head injury patients.
The overall objective of head injury care is to minimize the occurrence of avoidable mortality and morbidity. Most avoidable mortality is due to delayed diagnosis and management of intracranial hematoma or the overlooking of systemic extracranial events. Most avoidable morbidity is in mild and moderately disabled patients. Overall too much attention has probably been paid to very severely injured patients both in the acute stage and during rehabilitation.
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D006259:Craniocerebral Trauma / Q000628:therapy*; D006295:Health Resources; D006801:Humans; D009493:Neurosurgery; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D006113:United Kingdom