Abstract: The authors studied 538 patients who had sustained minor head trauma, which
was defined as a history of unconsciousness of 20 minutes or less, a Glasgow Coma Scale
score of 13 to 15, and hospitalization not exceeding 48 hours. Of these patients, 424 were ...

Abstract: Seventy-one patients with minor head injury were given extensive
neuropsychological evaluations 3 months after injury. A significant percentage of the
patients demonstrated cognitive impairment, which seemed essentially unrelated to the ...

Abstract: We have divided head injury into three categories based on the Glasgow Coma
Scale (GCS)(severe, 3-8; moderate, 9-12; and minor, 13-15). In a previous report, we
described significant disability after minor head injury. The present report describes 199 ...

Abstract Patients who have suffered concussion are for a period unable to process
information at a normal rate. The time taken to recover is related to the severity of the injury,
judged from the duration of post-traumatic amnesia, and after uncomplicated concussion ...

✓ The majority of hospital admissions for head trauma are due to minor injuries; that is, no or
only transient loss of consciousness without major complications and not requiring
intracranial surgery. Despite the low mortality rate following minor head injury, there is ...

Abstract Of 131 patients with mild concussion, 19 (14.5 per cent) still had symptoms after 1
year. Of these 19 patients, 10 had some symptoms of which they had not complained at 6
weeks. Symptoms at 1 year were more common among women and among patients who ...

Abstract Twenty subjects with minor head injury were compared to an uninjured group at 1
and 12 months after injury on a battery of neuropsychological and psychosocial measures.
The results indicate that single minor head injury in persons with no prior compromising ...

Abstract Seemingly mild head injuries frequently result in persisting postconcussive
syndromes. The etiology of these symptoms is often controversial. Neuropsychological,
neurophysiological, and neuropathological evidence that brain damage can occur in the ...

Abstract Of 145 patients with concussion from minor head injuries admitted to the Royal
Victoria Hospital, Belfast, over one year, 49· 0% had no symptoms, 38· 9% had between 1
and 6 symptoms, and 2· 1% had more than 6 symptoms about six weeks after the accident ...

Abstract 1. The severity of mild traumatic brain injury (TBI) must be based on a score of 15
on the Glasgow Coma Scale; a score of 13 or 14 is due to confusion and will be associated
with a longer period of posttraumatic amnesia (PTA). The primary neuropathology of TBI is ...