Clinical presentation
| Patient characteristic | Summary statistic n=148 |
| Mechanism of injury | |
| Ground level fall | 142, 96.0% |
| Fall>2 m | 3, 2.0% |
| Assault | 2, 1.4% |
| Unknown | 1, 0.6% |
| Presenting GCS (n, %) | |
| 15 | 107, 72.3% |
| 14* | 41, 27.7% |
| Symptoms | |
| Asymptomatic | 111, 75.0% |
| Headache† | 13, 8.8% |
| Amnesia† | 13, 8.8% |
| LOC† | 6, 4.1% |
| Vomiting† | 2, 1.4% |
| External signs of head injury | |
| None | 65, 43.9% |
| Abrasion‡ | 12, 8.1% |
| Laceration‡ | 31, 20.9% |
| Contusion/haematoma‡ | 37, 25.0% |
| Boney tenderness‡ | 2, 1.4% |
| Epistaxis‡ | 2, 1.4% |
*n=16 with a baseline GCS of 14.
†Patients could have more than one symptom.
‡Patients could have more than one external sign of head injury.
LOC, Loss of conciousness.