«Patients with
head injuries do better when treated by trauma centers, even if it means bypassing other hospitals: Study shows a major opportunity to improve
outcomes for the half of severe
head injury patients who are brought to hospitals without trauma centers.»
One of the most devastating
outcomes of a car, truck or motorcycle accident in Virginia is
for one of the victims to suffer a
head injury.
One month or more after the accident, the insured person's level of neurological function does not exceed category 2 (Vegetative) on the King's
Outcome Scale for Childhood Head Injury as published in Crouchman, M. et al, A practical outcome scale for paediatric head injury, Archives of Disease in Childhood, 2001: 84: 120
Outcome Scale
for Childhood
Head Injury as published in Crouchman, M. et al, A practical outcome scale for paediatric head injury, Archives of Disease in Childhood, 2001: 84: 120 -
Head Injury as published in Crouchman, M. et al, A practical
outcome scale for paediatric head injury, Archives of Disease in Childhood, 2001: 84: 120
outcome scale
for paediatric
head injury, Archives of Disease in Childhood, 2001: 84: 120 -
head injury, Archives of Disease in Childhood, 2001: 84: 120 - 124.
Other cases may be much more complex;
for example contributory negligence from a
head injured individual who was not wearing a helmet, life expectancy after a devastating
head injury in a child, or causation in terms of
outcome from a delay in diagnosis.