BACKGROUND Intracranial bleeding (IB) is a common and serious consequence of traumatic brain injury (TBI). IB can be classified according to the location into: epidural haemorrhage (EDH) subdural haemorrhage (SDH) intraparenchymal haemorrhage (IPH) and subarachnoid haemorrhage (SAH). Studies involving repeated CT scanning of TBI patients have found that IB can develop or expand in the 48 hours ...

OBJECTIVE To determine the imaging and demographic characteristics of intracranial haemorrhages, which are subsequently found to be due to an underlying intracranial vascular malformation (IVM). METHODS We compared the demographic and brain imaging characteristics of adults presenting with intracranial haemorrhage, subsequently found to be due to a brain arteriovenous malformation (BAVM), dur...

INTRODUCTION Current literature estimates the risk of delayed intracranial hemorrhage as between 0.6 and 6% after mild head injury for patients on warfarin. Due to resource allocation issues, the need to actually diagnose delayed intracranial haemorrhage has been questioned, especially if it does not require surgery. The purpose of our case report is to consider the functional implications duri...

Demailly D, et al. BMJ Case Rep 2017. doi:10.1136/bcr-2017-220344 Description An 86-year-old woman with acute blunt head trauma (the patient’s head was hit by a car) 10 days ago, associated with a right occipital fracture and an acute subdural haematoma (treated in the department of neurosurgery by oral prednisone 80 mg once a day) (figure 1), presented with focal left arm motor seizures. At th...

Abstract Background In recent Major Trauma Audit Reports the most common cause of major trauma is low falls, 46-49% injured patients were aged over 65. These are an important group to identify and prioritise for geriatrician led MDT care. There currently no specialist geriatric medicine service in Ireland older adults with trauma. We aimed evaluate co-managed by orthopaedic surgery medicine, ro...