Headache/Head Injury Diagnosis

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Headache/Head Injury Diagnosis
Paul Toland
This project is a website that will be used for
headache/head injury diagnosis. There will be
three separate parts to the project. A. Patient
information This section of the website will be
for the use of the general public. There are two
applets to help the patient decide whether to
seek medical advice from a G.P., go to a hospital
or take an aspirin and lie down. A reference
library will be available for the patient to
learn more on the possible causes of his/her
headache. The applets and the reference library
created using information gleaned from the
British Medical Association Family health
Encyclopaedia B. Student information This
section will contain tutorials and a test on head
injuries for medical students. A tutorial will
outline a case of a head injury, the procedure
that was followed, the decisions made and giving
reasons for the decisions taken concerning the
diagnosis and treatment. The test will be in a
multiple choice format. Hopefully the tutorials
and test will be based on information from a head
injuries consultant. C. Staff - This section
will be for the use of nursing staff at a
hospital. Nurse are being given more and more
decision- making powers. In the accident and
emergency departments senior nurses are now being
asked to make decisions on whether to request
X-rays, CT scans etc. This section of the
project will contain a servlet that will guide
the nurse through the procedures for the
treatment of a head injury. The servlet will
also list the possible injuries and give reasons
for the inclusion of items on the list. The nurse
will click on radio buttons in each section of a
questionnaire that contain the symptoms and signs
of head injury. At the end of each section a
suggestion will be given for the procedure to be
followed. The reasoning element of the servlet
will possibly be created using biologically-inspir
ed computing techniques. The information for
this section has been provided by a head injuries
consultant at the Glasgow Royal Infirmary. The
project thus far The two applets for the patient
section have been created, along with several
pages of the patient reference library. The
pages have been created using MS Front Page,
however in their final form they will be
re-created using Dreamweaver. Research into all
other aspects of the project continues.
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