You are concerned that there is an incidence of intracranial injury (ICI) in this group, but have no data to support an argument for early head scanning.doi:10.1136/EMJ.18.6.469Andrew MunroIan MaconochieBMJ GroupArchives of Emergency Medicine...
ContextTwo decision rules for indications of computed tomography (CT) in patients with minor head injury, the Canadian CT Head Rule (CCHR) and the New
Paediatric head injuries (PHI) are a common cause for emergency hospital admission all around the world. PHI are distinguished as traumatic or accidental brain injury and nonaccidental head injury (child abuse). According to different guidelines (NICE, S
In our experience, vomiting alone has a of 4% for significant head injury in adults. However, none of these injuries were serious enough to warrant acute or delayed intervention. Given these findings, vomiting following head injury is a reasonable indication for a CT head scan; however, as ...
Vomiting - Is this a good indication for CT head scans in patients with minor head injury? The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence head injury guidelines advise CT imaging within 1 h if there is more than one episode of vomiting... J Bainbridge,H Khirwadkar,MD Hourihan - ...
Computed tomography (CT) Introduction Minor head injury (MHI) is a common and increasing cause of emergency department (ED) visits worldwide. [1], [2], [3] With aging of the population it is expected that the burden caused by MHI will continue to rise in the next decades. The vast ma...
The distribution of children in the different SNC risk categories, with corresponding neurosurgery, ciTBI and brain injury on CT outcomes, is shown in Fig. 2. There were significant differences between the risk groups in terms of ciTBI frequency. When combining groups to represent the ...
The authors described briefly about the indication of treatment for acute stage of serious head injury. The diagnosis of intra-cranial hematoma should be chiefly determined by clinico-neuro-logical signs. In these cases the disturbance of consciousness and anisocoria are two most important signs. The...
Indication for a broader use of cerebral computed tomography scanning Two series of patients with a minor head injury (for a total of 182 cases), differing only in the presence and absence of a linear skull fracture, were adm... F Servadei,G Ciucci,A Morichetti,... - 《Surgical ...
In patients with severe injuries, CT scans are typically used to assess for internal injuries involving the head and neck, chest, and abdomen. Determining which stable, alert trauma patient requires spinal imaging can be challenging. The history, mechanism of injury, physical examination, and clinic...