Castillo CM, Delgado RL, Acosta GR, Mendizabal GR

Language: Spanish
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ABSTRACT

The head brain injury is one of the most frequent causes of attention in the emergency room at any hospital. The patients with TCE should be assisted immediately in order to make a difference, preserving the life and, mainly, avoid as is possible any disable. A quick and effective valuation as well as stabilizing and correct diagnoses will give the rule for the integral and necessary management. The current management has a great variability in the different hospital centers that they receive and they try this type of patients. In the present work, norms of systematized and flexible management in the emergency room for the light, moderate and severe head brain injury is suggested. These norms are based on the current changes derived of the investigations and the technological advances with a practical focus for an uniform treatment. They don’t seek to substitute the texts specialized in the management of the head trauma neither replace the experience and the form of working from each hospital center but they have the objective of improving the effectiveness of the medical emergency room attendance, contribute with a better knowledge of the problem between the medical and nurses communities in order to achieve a practical and defined attitude in them to apply an expedite management in this type of lesions that they constitute 50% of the deaths for general trauma.

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