Management of Minor Head Injury

The minor head injury.

CURRENT TOPIC Minor head injury

Head injury is one of the more common reasons for children to attend for urgent medical care, whether to accident and emergency departments or their general practitioner. Often these attendances are accompanied by a high degree of anxiety, both by the parents or guardians with the child and the doctors and nurses providing medical care. In the UK most of these children will receive their initia...

Pediatric minor closed head injury.

Many studies have found conflicting evidence over the use of clinical indicators to predict intracranial injury in pediatric mild head injury. Although altered mental status, loss of consciousness, and abnormal neurologic examination have all been found to be more prevalent among head-injured children, studies have observed inconsistent results over their specificity and predictive value. Child...

Post concussion ataxia following minor head injury.

A 2-year-old girl presented with history of fall from a 2 feet high bed, 20 days back. There was no alteration of consciousness immediately but four hours later parents noticed unsteadiness of gait and shaking of head and neck. These progressed and she became bedridden due to ataxia 7 days later. There was no pain or restriction of neck movement. There was no preceding viral illness, vaccinatio...

Outcome after complicated minor head injury.

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Functional outcome in patients with minor head injury with neurocranial traumatic findings on CT is largely unknown. We hypothesized that certain CT findings may be predictive of poor functional outcome. MATERIALS AND METHODS All patients from the CT in Head Injury Patients (CHIP) study with neurocranial traumatic CT findings were included. The CHIP study is a prospecti...