Clinical Case Database / Category: Patient Management
Can this adult who has sustained a head injury go home?
Publication details
Elizabeth Gillott, Ashis Banerjee
Foundation Years Journal, volume 3, issue 10, p.38 (123Doc Education, London, December 2009)
Abstract
A 24-year-old man attended his local A&E department in the early hours of the morning after being assaulted. He was accompanied by his friend who had witnessed the incident. They gave a history of the patient being attacked while leaving a pub. He was knocked to the ground and received repeated blows to the face and head. His GCS was 14/15 on arrival in the A&E department. Prior to the assault, he was fit and well and was not taking any medication, prescribed or otherwise.
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Authors
Elizabeth Gillott
F2 doctor in emergency medicine
Chase Farm Hospital
The Ridgeway
Enfield, EN2 8JL
Ashis Banerjee
Consultant/honorary senior lecturer in emergency medicine
Chase Farm Hospital
The Ridgeway
Enfield, EN2 8JL
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