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 MedicineMunro A, Maconochie I. Indications for head CT in children with mild head injury. Emerg Med J 2001;...
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 ...
PECARN prediction rules for CT imaging of children presenting to the emergency department with blunt abdominal or minor head trauma: a multicentre prospective validation study Lancet Child Adolesc Health, 8 (5) (2024), pp. 339-347 May View PDFView articleView in ScopusGoogle Scholar [3] C.M...
The proposed single doses 600-700 Gy, within 72 hours of injury. Non-steroidal analgesics (indo- methacin), two tablets a day for three weeks (5). In our sample, we had no cases of n. ulnaris infringement, nor for the preventive reasons performed front ulnar tran...
B, A locally advanced PET is in the pancreatic head that is obstructing both the SMV and common bile duct. The patient presented with jaundice and had a stent placed in the common bile duct. The PET is blocking the SMV, and one can see extensive collateral veins in the tributaries ...
Head of Vascular Surgical Division University Hospital Leipzig Leipzig, Germany daniela.branzan@medizin.uni-leipzig.de Disclosures: Receives grants and speaking fees from Cook Medical, Cydar Medical, Endologix, BD Bard, Bentley Innomed, Bayer Medical, and Terumo Aortic. ...
The apparatus and method of the invention relate to data entry in ideographic languages, including Chinese, Japanese and Korean, and to interactive displays and interactive display methods for use by
Report by Andrew Munro, Specialist Registrar in Emergency Medicine Checked by Ian Maconochie, Paediatric Consultant in Emergency MedicineAndrewDepartmentMunroDepartmentIanDepartmentMaconochieDepartmentBMJEmergency Medicine Journal EmjMunro A, Maconochie I. Indications for head CT in children with mild head ...
Two prospective epidemiological studies on head injury were conducted in our region in 1985 and in 1989; in the first period there were 370 admission following head inury/100000 pop./year and a mortality of 26 cases /10000 pop./year with 83% of patients dieing on the scene of accident or...
The indication for and operative technique and efficiency of decompressive craniectomy after severe head injury are still matters of controversy [1, 4鈥 7). Operative decompression is often performed only on the basis of computed tomography (CT) and the patient's clinical course, without definite ...