Abstract
The best predictors of outcome after closed head injury remain behavioural measures rather than neuroimaging or electrophysiological or biochemical findings, as is also the case after stroke. Of the behavioural measures studied, the duration of post-traumatic amnesia has been shown repeatedly to be one of the best single predictors of residual problems with cognitive function or functional independence—better, in many studies, than the depth or duration of coma.1 Knowledge of the duration of post-traumatic amnesia and its implications after closed head injury is therefore of considerable clinical importance, informing advice to families and patients and the planning of rehabilitation programmes.
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