Flores VJL, Ramos RE

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ABSTRACT

Introduction. Traumatic brain injury is an important cause of morbidity, decease an costs. The adecuate atention gives best chance in surveillance and diminishes the secuels at short and long range. The use of scales in form of cuestionaries in an emergency room World be useful for the clasification and identification of patients that need inmediate treatment and could be egressed.
Poblation. Pregraduated medicine students, rotatory doctors and speciality residents were evaluated in how well clasificate patients with traumatic brain injury.
Material and method. With the Becker scale as a base, three sections were proponed: Glasgow coma scale, loss of conciousness and neurologic defect.
Results. The great part of medical personal evaluated answerd well the cuestionaries. But there were differences between groups that depended on the medical experience. For that the proposed cuestionary is applicable only rests validate it.

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