TY - JOUR T1 - Head injury transfers: arm of greatest delay JF - Emergency Medicine Journal JO - Emerg Med J SP - 397 LP - 397 DO - 10.1136/emj.2003.006163 VL - 21 IS - 3 AU - C D Okereke Y1 - 2004/05/01 UR - http://emj.bmj.com/content/21/3/397.1.abstract N2 - In patients with suspected head injuries, the immediate purpose of a specific diagnosis is to determine which patients need an emergency or urgent neurosurgical operation. The teaching is that within two hours of injury, essential diagnostic studies should be completed, as delay can be extremely costly for the patient. In view of this emergency CT scans should be obtained as soon as … ER -