Reviewed by the Coppell ER emergency care team 🚨 Call 911 If Any of These Appear After a Head Impact Loss of consciousness of any duration. Repeated vomiting. Seizure or convulsion. Slurred speech or weakness on one side. Unequal pupil sizes. Clear fluid draining from the nose or ears. Severe
Reviewed by the Coppell ER emergency care team 🚨 Call 911 If Any of These Apply Right Now Bone is visible through the skin. The limb is bent at an unusual angle. Fingers or toes below the injury are pale, blue, or cold. You cannot feel or move the area
Reviewed by the Coppell ER emergency care team 🚨 Call 911 If This Describes Your Headache Right Now The pain hit in under a minute. It feels like the worst headache of your life. You have a stiff neck with fever. You cannot move one side of your face or
Most sudden dizziness is benign — caused by inner ear problems, dehydration, low blood sugar, anxiety, or medication side effects. Only about 2 to 5% of ER visits for dizziness turn out to have a serious cause. But the serious ones are very serious: stroke, brain hemorrhage, vertebral artery dissection,
Go to the ER for any headache that comes on suddenly and peaks within 60 seconds (“thunderclap headache”), feels like the worst headache of your life, comes with fever and stiff neck, is paired with weakness, numbness, slurred speech, vision changes, confusion, or seizures, follows a head injury, or develops
Sudden numbness on one side of the body, face, arm, leg, or all three, is one of the most specific stroke warning signs in medicine. The American Heart Association, CDC, and Johns Hopkins all list it as a primary stroke red flag. Until proven otherwise by an ER workup, any
