Evaluating for a Traumatic Brain Injury

Concussion is a clinical diagnosis it's not going to be diagnosed by a head CT and MRI, or any other imaging modality that we have available to us in the emergency department. It is diagnosed based on if there is a mechanism with substance symptoms you can diagnose that patient is having a concussion. Concussions are classically determined to classically defined as that mild TBI range. GCSA 14 to 15 with diffuse kind of vague symptoms, non focal, no neurological deficits and no alterations to consciousness right so those are two separate things. From there you that are going to progress down your anticipatory guidance patient education pathway to tell patients what to look out for at home. Most primary care physicians