Open AccessDirect versus indirect transfer for traumatic brain injury to James Cook University Hospital: a retrospective study
Author(s) -
Atul Vats,
Durba Roy,
Manjunath Prasad
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
annals of the royal college of surgeons of england
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.39
H-Index - 63
eISSN - 1478-7083
pISSN - 0035-8843
DOI - 10.1308/rcsann.2020.0180
Subject(s) - medicine , neurosurgery , glasgow outcome scale , intensive care unit , traumatic brain injury , retrospective cohort study , glasgow coma scale , observational study , surgery , emergency department , audit , emergency medicine , head injury , intensive care medicine , psychiatry , management , economics
Patients with traumatic brain injury are referred to the neurosurgical unit at James Cook University Hospital, Middlesbrough, either from local accident and emergency departments (direct transfer from the scene) or from other hospitals (indirect transfer). This study looked at the outcome in both groups.