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“This is going to change the testing paradigm for suspected cases of concussion,” Tara Rabin, a spokesperson for the FDA. The reason you do those scans is to rule out a clinically important brain injury, which would need surgery. . . . But in 99 percent of concussions you do not need a CT scan because they’re not clinically important, meaning there’s not an immediate need for surgery.” Anytime a physician is thinking there may not be a concussion, this wil become the test. If this test says there is sign of a concussion, it has been right 97% of time. If it says no, it has been right 99% of time.