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Article: Evaluating the patient with minor head trauma.
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- ED Legal Letter
- Article date:
- April 1, 2002
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Evaluating the patient with minor head trauma
By Jay C. Weaver, JD, EMT-P, Boston Public Health Commission, Emergency Medical Services; Adjunct Faculty, Northeastern University, Boston.
Peer reviewed by Bryan McNally, MD, EMS Medicine Fellow, Boston Medical Center.
Editors note:
The author presents a concise summary of the diagnostic dilemma that emergency physicians face daily in regard to the patient with minor head trauma. The volume of patients presenting with head injuries precludes the use of routine computed tomography (CT) scanning of all these patients. Both space limitations as well as time constraints in todays emergency ...