Head Injury Report Form V010618 Jade Marinschools Org

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so our next speaker is karma ring covets who's a nanite renard doctoral research fellow from Holyoke Medical School and his talk is on impact of national head injury guidelines and the NHS 24 for our emergency target on mortality and hospital admissions calm thank you good afternoon and thank you for the opportunity to present today there are over 1.4 million annual attendances to emergency departments in the UK following head trauma around 1 percent of patients of life threatening injuries but it can be difficult to identify here they are over the last 18 years a series of nice and sighin guidelines have been introduced in England in Scotland in order to help this assessment and try and improve patient outcomes these guidelines will advocated increased CT imaging with the aim of ensuring all serious injuries are identified and to reduce hospital admissions and patients with normal CT scans the second nice guideline also specifically recommended that patients with severe injuries and m