Indications for urgent brain imaging and/or hospital admission
| Indications for urgent brain imaging a and/or hospital admission |
| Acute head trauma |
| New onset focal neurologic deficit |
| Altered mental status persists (behaviour or cognition) |
| Recurrent events |
| Persistent headache |
| Anticoagulation |
| A history of immunodeficiency or malignancy |
| Fever |
| Focal seizure (partial seizure) |
| New neurological symptoms prior to the seizure |
| Patients in whom follow-up cannot be ensured |
aUrgent imaging is not required for syncope, non-epileptic seizures, or patients with well-characterised epilepsy or recurrent admissions with drug/alcohol-provoked seizures in the absence of any additional reason to suspect new intracranial pathology