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Published on: August 14, 2019
Patients with mild traumatic brain injury: immediate and long-term outcome compared to intra-cranial injuries on CT
Charlotte Sadowski-Cron1, Jörg Schneider, Pascal Senn
1Department of Accident and Emergency Medicine, University of Bern, Inselspital, Bern, Switzerland.
Background:
Mild traumatic brain injury (MTBI) defined as Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) 14 or 15 has shown contradictory short- and long-term outcomes. The objective of this study was to correlate intra-cranial injuries (ICI) on CT scan to neurocognitive tests at admission and to complaints after 1 year.
Methods:
Two hundred and five patients with MTBI underwent a CT scan and were examined with neurocognitive tests. After 1 year complaints were assessed by phone interviews.
Results:
The neurocognitive tests in 51% of the patients showed significant deficits; there was no difference for patients with GCS 14-15, nor was there a difference between patients with ICI to patients without. After 1 year patients with ICI had significantly more complaints than patients without ICI, the most frequent complaint was headache and memory deficits.
Conclusions:
No correlation was found between GCS or ICI and the neurocognitive tests upon admission. After 1 year, patients with ICI have significantly more complaints than patients without ICI. No cost savings resulted by doing immediate CT scan on all.
