Imaging the infant with a head injury: a single-centre retrospective study

Head injury is the largest cause of mortality in paediatric trauma. Infants (<1 year old) are a high-risk group and vulnerable to non-accidental injury. A single-centre retrospective study at a major trauma centre collected data on infants presenting with a head injury over a 48-month period. 112...

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Autores principales: Braunold, Daniel, Lewis, Hannah, O'Neill, Breda, Edmonds, Naomi
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BMJ Publishing Group 2020
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Original Research Letter
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7646347/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33178899
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjpo-2020-000779
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description Head injury is the largest cause of mortality in paediatric trauma. Infants (<1 year old) are a high-risk group and vulnerable to non-accidental injury. A single-centre retrospective study at a major trauma centre collected data on infants presenting with a head injury over a 48-month period. 1127 infants presented with a head injury. 135 CT heads were performed. 38% of scans showed intracranial pathology. The decision about which infants to send for CT scans remains complex. Liberal use risks over-exposure to ionising radiation while restrictive use may miss subtler injuries.
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spelling pubmed-76463472020-11-10 Imaging the infant with a head injury: a single-centre retrospective study Braunold, Daniel Lewis, Hannah O'Neill, Breda Edmonds, Naomi BMJ Paediatr Open Original Research Letter Head injury is the largest cause of mortality in paediatric trauma. Infants (<1 year old) are a high-risk group and vulnerable to non-accidental injury. A single-centre retrospective study at a major trauma centre collected data on infants presenting with a head injury over a 48-month period. 1127 infants presented with a head injury. 135 CT heads were performed. 38% of scans showed intracranial pathology. The decision about which infants to send for CT scans remains complex. Liberal use risks over-exposure to ionising radiation while restrictive use may miss subtler injuries. BMJ Publishing Group 2020-11-05 /pmc/articles/PMC7646347/ /pubmed/33178899 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjpo-2020-000779 Text en © Author(s) (or their employer(s)) 2020. Re-use permitted under CC BY-NC. No commercial re-use. See rights and permissions. Published by BMJ. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This is an open access article distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited, appropriate credit is given, any changes made indicated, and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/.
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title_short Imaging the infant with a head injury: a single-centre retrospective study
title_sort imaging the infant with a head injury: a single-centre retrospective study
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7646347/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33178899
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjpo-2020-000779
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