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Evidence-Based Guideline on the signs and symptoms of concussion... Indicators of concussion, observed in alert (alert: Glasgow Coma Scale Score, 13 to 15) individuals after a force to the head, are the following: • Observed and documented disorientation or confusion (disorientation or confusion: loss of one’s sense of direction, position, or relation- ship with one’s surroundings) immediately after the event • Impaired balance (balance: a state of body equilibrium) within 1 day after injury, • Slower reaction time (reaction time: the interval of time between application of a stim- ulus and detection of a response) within 2 days after injury, and • Impaired verbal learning and memory (verbal learning and memory: the acquisition, reten- tion, and retrieval of verbal material; memory of words and other abstractions involving language) within 2 days after injury. From September 2014 issue of Neurosurgery
Posted on: Thu, 07 Aug 2014 03:18:04 +0000

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