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Isolated LOC in head trauma associated with significant injury on brain CT scan.

Muhammad WaseemPatrick IyahenHilary Bryan AndersonKevin KapoorRamnath KapoorMark Leber
Published in: International journal of emergency medicine (2017)
A small proportion of patients with LOC had CT finding requiring intervention. Head trauma patients with no physical injuries to the head, neck, or face and a normal GCS had no significant brain CT findings. This raises the question of whether a routine brain CT scan should be obtained in patients with LOC, no physical findings, and a normal GCS after blunt head trauma.
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