This day, March 20, we celebrate head injury awareness day. This ‘celebration’ acquires specific significance in India, which has the largest annual incidences of head injuries. Every day, 500,000 people are reported to suffer a head injury in some form or the other and it is the sixth most common cause of death, in the country.

Phineas Gage, a 25 year old, railway construction man was a quiet, well mannered, enthusiastic young man in pursuit of his dreams, until it all happened in 1848. The worker was busy packing an explosive powder into a packing rod (tamping iron), when a spark resulted in explosion, propelling the pointed rod (3-foo long) through

THE GOLDEN HOUR. Quick and the timely help rendered in this period would ensure that the victim is nearly saved so that appropriate treatment can be made available from the nearby hospital. Golden Hour may be defined as the period during which all efforts are

coma is a deep state of unconsciousness where the affected individual is alive but is not able to react or respond to life around him/her. Coma is