Accident & Emergency (A&E)
After you had been picked up by the you would have been taken to the Accident and Emergency Department in your hospital. This is called A&E for short.
Accident and emergency is place where very skilled doctors and nurses work. Their job is to keep you alive and you after your accident so that you can start to get better. During this time, the doctors decide look at how your injury is and decide what to do.
If your brain injury was not so serious, they would have sent you to the to be watched overnight. If you brain injury was very serious, they would have got you ready to be sent to the called .
Most people do not remember much about being in accident and emergency although there is always lots about A&E on television. A lot of it is true, although in real life things are much calmer!
“I don’t remember A&E but Mum told me what happened. Click here if you want to know more.”
“I can remember going to A&E. It was very busy and frightening. Here is what happened to me.”