If your brain injury was very serious, the doctors in accident and emergency would have sent you to intensive care to be very well looked after.

If you went to intensive care, this would have meant that you were too sick to breathe for yourself because your brain was badly damaged. The doctors wanted to keep you unconscious in order to protect the brain and keep you from being awake and distressed.

You would have had a tube put into your nose or mouth called an ET tube that would have been connected to a special breathing machine called a ventilator. You would have been very well sedated so you won’t remember much about this at all.