Isolated Loss of Consciousness in Children With Minor Blunt Head Trauma
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Isolated loss of consciousness in children with minor blunt head trauma.
IMPORTANCE A history of loss of consciousness (LOC) is frequently a driving factor for computed tomography use in the emergency department evaluation of children with blunt head trauma. Computed tomography carries a nonnegligible risk for lethal radiation-induced malignancy. The Pediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network (PECARN) derived 2 age-specific prediction rules with 6 variables f...
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عنوان ژورنال: JAMA Pediatrics
سال: 2014
ISSN: 2168-6203
DOI: 10.1001/jamapediatrics.2014.361