When does a Head Injury require medical attention? - Dr. Suresh H S

70% of deaths due to road traffic accident are because of a dangerous so we should not take head injury cases so lately. If a person comes to the doctor with the mild injury without loss of consciousness if he is conscious alert oriented then we can just observe them. If the patient is having severe persistent headache, vomiting, blurring of vision, deterioration in the level of sensorium, drowsiness if he develops fits develops also sometimes patient may develop weakness of limbs and then there will be an ongoing problem inside the brain like increasing size of epitomes those cases we should the observed properly and identify the problem immediately we should go for CT Scan in case of injuries to identify the problem otherwise the chances of losing the patient is very high. Again if patient is present to us even if patient is conscious alert oriented if there is a wound involving and if fracture is palpable in the skull we should investigate and immediately without wasting the time.