What I find unacceptable is if a hospital is not a major trauma unit
they will only test one problem, and they weigh which is the worst,
and leave all the rest. Then they put on the discharge notes "Follow
up with Primary doctor". Patient is clueless about the issues ignored.

It took a week later and going to a major trauma ER to get the
diagnosis of post concussion syndrome MVC.
Susan H



--- In Traumatic_Brain_Injury@yahoogroups.com, "faithful_ameena"
<faithful_ameena@...> wrote:
>
> About two million head injuries of all types (including skull and
> facial fractures) occur each year in the U. S. (175 to 200 per 100,000
> population).1
> Over 1.5 million Americans suffer nonfatal traumatic brain injuries
> each year which do not require hospitalization. About the same number
> are reported to sustain a brain injury resulting in a loss of
> consciousness but not severe enough to result in long-term
> institutionalization (an annual rate of 618 per 100,000 person-
> years).1, 2
> Another 300,000 individuals suffer brain injuries severe enough to
> require hospitalization, with 99,000 resulting in a lasting disability.
> A total of 56,000 people die each year as a result of trau-matic brain
> injury.1
> Traumatic brain injuries account for an estimated 34% of all injury
> deaths in the United States.3
> An estimated 62.3 per 100,000 adults age 15 and over are living in the
> community with enduring functional impairments
>