Bleeding occurs when trauma damages a blood vessel. When that trauma involves your head—whether the scalp, skull, or brain—it’s considered a head injury. These head injuries range in severity from a ...

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Intimate partner violence-related head injury significantly worsened psychiatric and cognitive outcomes, highlighting the need for comprehensive screenings for related head injury in all patients ... Sustaining a head injury of any type was associated with an increased risk for future suicide attempts. In a large cohort study that included more than 1.8 million adults, those with head injuries ... Adults who experience a head injury face a substantially higher risk of attempting suicide compared to those without such injuries, according to the findings from a new UK-based study.

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Published in ... Medscape: Nurse Practitioner-Led Pediatric Head Injury Clinic Improves Resource Utilization and Continuity of Care A study showed that a pediatric nurse practitioner-led outpatient clinic for head injury care within the department of neurosurgery improved hospital resource utilization and continuity of care ... Nurse Practitioner-Led Pediatric Head Injury Clinic Improves Resource Utilization and Continuity of Care Public Broadcasting Service (PBS): Traumatic brain injuries become defining injury for U.S. troops in post-9/11 conflicts