Wednesday, April 7, 2010 as of 11:14 AM ET
Head injury refers to trauma of the head. This may or may not include injury to the brain. However, the terms traumatic brain injury and head injury are often used interchangeably in medical literature.
Read More at Wikipedia ›A Connecticut hospital facing a lawsuit by a woman who says she was severely injured when she fell off an operating table after surgery says it deeply regrets what happened and apologized to the patient.
Attorneys for 81-year-old Florence Fiedler of New Canaan filed the lawsuit Tuesday against Yale-New Haven Hospital.The lawsuit says Fiedler had a pacemaker implanted in February 2010 and fell off the table after the surgery. Her attorneys say she suffered fractures of the hip and collarbone, a traumatic head injury that resulted in bleeding under her skull and other injuries.The lawsuit alleges the hospital improperly left Fiedler unattended.Rob Hutchison, spokesman for Yale-New Haven Hospital, says the hospital promptly reported the incident to the state Department of Public Health....More than 500,000 children and adolescents suffer a mild traumatic brain injury each year – and according to a new study, these children appear to be at risk of expe...
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Head injury
What causes a seemingly healthy person to suddenly lose it?It’s a question likely on many minds in light of a series of recent episodes, such as when a JetBlue pilot...
One in five soldiers who return from Iraq or Afghanistan having suffered a concussion develop chronic headaches that occur at least half the days of the month, with ...
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