Which management strategy do parents prefer for their head-injured child: immediate computed tomography scan or observation?

A Karpas, M Finkelstein, S Reid - Pediatric emergency care, 2013 - journals.lww.com
… of head injury evaluation, immediate computed tomography (… During our period of data
collection, the unfortunate death of … We are unable to measure what effect this might have had on …

Physicians' risk tolerance and head computed tomography use for pediatric patients with minor head injury

CY Cheng, HY Pan, CJ Li, YC Chen… - … emergency care, 2021 - journals.lww.com
… The consequences of MHI can be severe. It is challenging for … head CT examinations may
lead to increased durations of … observed between MFS quartiles and head CT use (Table 3). …

Implementation of a clinical decision support system for children with minor blunt head trauma who are at nonnegligible risk for traumatic brain injuries

DW Ballard, N Kuppermann, DR Vinson, E Tham… - … of emergency medicine, 2019 - Elsevier
… support: proportion of ED computed tomography (CT) scans, … for ED observation, would
affect the CT use for children with … We defined ED length of stay as the time between ED arrival …

Pediatric head injuries: can clinical factors reliably predict an abnormality on computed tomography?

AM Dietrich, MJ Bowman, ME Ginn-Pease… - … of emergency medicine, 1993 - Elsevier
… injuries that can be life-threatening. 1-3 With the availability of … The consequences of failing
to diagnose even a single … of serious brain injury in childhood--an observation supported by …

… of the National Emergency X-Radiography Utilization Study (NEXUS) Head computed tomographic (CT) decision instrument for selective imaging of blunt head injury …

WR Mower, M Gupta, R Rodriguez, GW Hendey - PLoS medicine, 2017 - journals.plos.org
… that emergency physicians from 4 emergency departments in … for blunt head injury during
the enrollment period, underwent … , these observations imply that the NEXUS Head CT DI is a …

Young children with a minor traumatic head injury: clinical observation or CT scan?

N Niele, FB Plötz, E Tromp, B Boersma… - … journal of pediatrics, 2022 - Springer
… recommends clinical observation over computer tomography (… of children presenting in the
emergency department were … of Pediatrics recommended that duration of observation would …

Clinical algorithm and resource use in the management of children with minor head trauma

M Beaudin, D Saint-Vil, A Ouimet, C Mercier… - Journal of pediatric …, 2007 - Elsevier
… -rays and computed tomography (CT) scans of the head. This … with or without a period of
observation before admission. To … the emergency department at our institution with minor head

Headache in traumatic brain injuries from blunt head trauma

…, Pediatric Emergency Care Applied Research … - …, 2015 - publications.aap.org
computed tomography are very uncommon in children with … the effect of timing of the
headache due to low risk of the 2 TBI … of TBI after blunt head trauma, and a period of observation

Indications for computed tomography in patients with mild head injury

K Ono, K Wada, T Takahara… - Neurologia medico …, 2007 - jstage.jst.go.jp
… with head injury that present to the emergency department … , an emergency hospital in
Tokyo, during the 2-year period … intoxication were observed in the emergency department. We …

Association of whole-body computed tomography with mortality risk in children with blunt trauma

JA Meltzer, ME Stone, SH Reddy, EJ Silver - JAMA pediatrics, 2018 - jamanetwork.com
… the first 2 hours after emergency department arrival. Data analysis … the association of WBCT
and ED length of stay (LOS) and … head injury is the leading cause of death in children due to …