Concussions Requiring Emergency Services

These are Concussion Red flags:

• Loss of consciousness (knocked out)

• Deteriorating conscious state

• Vomiting more than once

• Increasingly restless, agitated or angry

• Increasingly confused

• Neck pain/tenderness

• Double vision

• Weakness or tingling in arms or legs

• Severe or increasing headache

• Seizure or convulsion

If any of the above symptoms are showing, the concussed person needs to go to an emergency room right away. They may have an injury that goes beyond a mild Traumatic Brain Injury (mTBI) and into full Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI). 

Remember that melon head boy that was seeing double? He definitely should have been taken to emergency to be checked out.

Below are longer explanations of what some of the red flag symptoms might look like. 

An icon‑based list or graphic visually summarizes concussion symptom RED Flags.