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{{Head trauma workup}} | |||
==Differential Diagnosis== | ==Differential Diagnosis== | ||
Revision as of 19:25, 10 January 2015
Background
- Due to trauma to temporoparietal area w/ associated skull fx and meningeal artery damage
- Classic presentation of LOC > lucid interval > LOC only occurs in 20%
- Injury to brain is often absent so good recovery if hematoma evacuated in time
Diagnosis
Workup
Workup
- Consider head CT (rule out intracranial hemorrhage)
- Use validated decision rule to determine need
- Avoid CT in patients with minor head injury who are at low risk based on validated decision rules.[1]
- Consider cervical and/or facial CT
Differential Diagnosis
Intracranial Hemorrhage Types
- Intra-axial
- Hemorrhagic stroke (Spontaneous intracerebral hemorrhage)
- Traumatic intracerebral hemorrhage
- Extra-axial
- Epidural hemorrhage
- Subdural hemorrhage
- Subarachnoid hemorrhage (aneurysmal intracranial hemorrhage)