Moderate and severe traumatic brain injury in general hospitals: a ten-year population-based retrospective cohort study in central Norway.
Shavin RahimEivor Alette LaugsandEven Hovig FyllingenVidar RaoRabea Iris PantelatosTomm Brostrup MüllerAnne VikToril SkandsenPublished in: Scandinavian journal of trauma, resuscitation and emergency medicine (2022)
Half of the patients were managed entirely at a GH, and these were mainly patients considered to have a low risk of further deterioration, patients with moderate TBI, and elderly patients. Less than two of ten patients ≥ 80 years old were transferred, and survival was poor regardless of the transferral status.