Head Injury and CT Scans for ChildrenPaul S. Auerbach
Not a NICE CT protocol for the acutely head injured child To assess the impact of the introduction of the Birmingham Children's Hospital (BCH) head injury computed tomography (CT) guidelines, when compared with th... AP Willis,SAA Latif,S Chandratre,... - 《Clinical Radiology》 被引量: ...
Purpose: The purpose of our study was to compare the value of ultrasound, conventional X-ray diagnosis and CT in detecting skull fractures and intracranial haemorrhage in children suffering from a head injury. Material and methods: We examined 210 children who had a head injury. In all cases ...
In total 13/107 children (12%) met the criteria for CT scan. However 6/13 children (46%) were sent home after clinical assessment by a doctor. 7/13 (54%) were admitted for 24 hours neurology observation of which 3/13 underwent CT scan. Head injury leaflet was given to all children...
To the Editor: Dr Smits and colleagues1 generated independently derived data on the performance of both the New Orleans Criteria (NOC) and the Canadian CT Head Rule (CCHR) for the use of computed tomography (CT) in patients with minor head injury. Although it is reassuring that both rules ...
To enhance selective use of head-CT several decision rules for MHI have been developed. Worldwide the most used decision rules are probably the Canadian CT Head Rule (CCHR) and the New Orleans Criteria (NOC). [10,11] Both CCHR as NOC are only applicable to patients with loss of conscious...
Information was thus collected on all patients presenting at the two A&E departments for the calendar month of April 2003 with an initial complaint of head injury. Patient details were extracted from the central computer system using search criteria of attendance at A&E in April 2003 as well ...
We already have two validated prediction rules for patients with minor head injury. But both are for use only in patients who have been knocked out. Researchers from the Netherlands have developed a third rule to include most patients who remain conscious. The …British Medical Journal Publishing...
AIM: To investigate the feasibility of noncontrast computed tomography (NcCT) and perfusion CT (PCT) in the assessment of head deceleration injury (HDI).: A small animal HDI device was developed. A total of 20 healthy adult with frontal impacts resulting from a 3.5 m drop were included in ...
athe pediatric neurosurgeon may be needed to evaluate the child with a suspected head injury and to review ct images of the brain,an important part of the evaluation for suspected child abuse in younger children. 小儿科神经外科医师在幼儿也许是需要的评估孩子以被怀疑的头部受伤和回顾脑子,评估的一个...