NICE Guideline updated
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 receive if they have been discharged from hospital within 48 hours
- the symptoms that healthcare professionals should watch out for after a head injury
- how information should be exchanged between different healthcare professionals
- the information and advice that should be made available to people with head injuries and their family or carers.
It does not specifically look at:
- the investigations or types of surgery that may be needed.
This guideline is an update of the clinical guideline CG4 on head injury that NICE produced in 2003.
More info at http://guidance.nice.org.uk/CG56