Head injury
Triage, assessment, investigation and early management of head injury in infants, children and adults
Description
The advice in the NICE clinical guideline covers: what should happen before someone with a head injury reaches hospital who should go to hospital the checks and tests that should be carried out and the action that should be taken once the test results are known the care people should r ...
This guideline is an update of the clinical guideline CG4 on head injury that NICE produced in 2003.
Responsibility for undertaking a review of this guidance at the designated review date has passed to the National Clinical Guidelines Centre for Acute and Chronic Conditions (NCGCACC). The National Collaborating Centre for Acute Care is no longer active.
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Expected review date: September 2010
About this guidance
Clinical guidelines CG56
Issued: September 2007
How this guidance was produced