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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Jun 1.
Published in final edited form as: Am J Emerg Med. 2017 Jan 25;35(6):875–880. doi: 10.1016/j.ajem.2017.01.051

Table 4.

Patients must meet following criteria for potential for safe ED discharge without repeat head CT after a period of observation.

< 65 years old
No traumatic subarachnoid hemorrhage on initial head CT
No headache

Applicable for patients with blunt traumatic brain injury, >17 years old, GCS 15, and without coagulopathy (but may be taking antiplatelet medications).