(KQED) – For the first time in over 50 years, emergency room doctors will have a new framework to assess people with head injuries from car or bike crashes, falls and assaults.
Existing assessment protocols for traumatic brain injury rely on broad, vague measures that filter patients into three categories based on their symptoms: mild, moderate and severe.
Doctors hope the new classification system, published Tuesday in The Lancet Neurology, will bring more detail to diagnosis and more nuance to treatment. CONTINUE