Summary: <p>Minor head injuries are a staple of urgent and emergent care medical practice. Primary care doctors, emergency physicians, and office practitioners everywhere have to make quick decisions about which patients may have the needle in the haystack—the serious intracranial injury. We scoured the literature for the most accurate predictors and the most valuable decision aids, and we found the good stuff. There is little need to fear the needle, we have your needle-finder. After this month’s SMART EM you’ll be doing less irradiating, more talking, and less stressing.</p>
