Emergency Services
If you believe that a person may have suffered a TBI, call the paramedics if it is an emergency situation or in more mild cases, contact your family physician. If you do not know whether there has been a TBI, be safe and call the paramedics. Medical professionals take great care in moving and transporting head-injured patients. Often back-boards and neck restraints are used to immobilize patients and prevent further injury. As soon as medical personnel have stabilized the head injured patient, they assess the patient's condition by measuring vital signs and reflexes and by performing a neurological examination. Traumatic Brain Injury Fact Sheet
See Website: National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke
www.ninds.nih.gov/disorders/tbi/detail_tbi.htm#73663218Introduction