In emergency medicine, a lucid interval is a temporary improvement in a patient's condition after a traumatic brain injury, after which the condition deteriorates. A lucid interval is especially indicative of an epidural hematoma. An estimated 20 to 50% of patients with epidural hematoma experience such a lucid interval.
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“He is mad past recovery, but yet he has lucid intervals.”
—Miguel De Cervantes (1547–1616)