UK Report recommends specialist care for severe Head Injury
4 Jul 2011
A recent UK study has shown that following severe head injury, mortality rates are higher when the patient is not treated in a specialist neuroscience unit. According to the researchers "Our data support current national [UK] guidelines and suggest that increasing transfer rates to NSUs [Neuroscience Units] represents an important strategy in improving outcomes in patients with Severe Head Injury."
The study was published in the Journal of Neurosurgical Anaesthiology and you can read the abstract here
Specialist centres for neuroscience in Ireland are based at Cork University Hospital and Beaumont Hospital, Dublin.