Imaging plays an essential role in identifying intracranial injury in patients with traumatic
brain injury (TBI). The goals of imaging include (1) detecting injuries that may require …

Many children present to emergency departments following head injury (HI), with a small
number at risk of avoidable poor outcome. Difficulty identifying such children, coupled with …

Objective To assess the cancer risk in children and adolescents following exposure to low
dose ionising radiation from diagnostic computed tomography (CT) scans. Design …

Study objective We derive a prediction rule to identify children at very low risk for intra-
abdominal injuries undergoing acute intervention and for whom computed tomography (CT) …

BACKGROUND: Computed tomography (CT) is commonly used for children when there is
concern for traumatic brain injury (TBI) and is a significant source of ionizing radiation. Our …

The aim of this review is to survey CT and MRI overuse in the paediatric emergency
department (ED) population. CT is one of the most important modalities employed in the ED …

Objective The Pediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network (PECARN) traumatic
brain injury (TBI) age-based clinical prediction rules identify children at very low risk of a …

OBJECTIVE: Blunt head trauma is a common injury in children, although it rarely requires
surgical intervention. Cranial computed tomography (CT) is the reference standard for the …

ACADEMIC EMERGENCY MEDICINE 2012; 19: 801–807© 2012 by the Society for
Academic Emergency Medicine Abstract Objectives: Of the currently published clinical …

OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study was to determine the overall trend of computed
tomography (CT) utilization in the pediatric emergency department (PED) from 2003 to 2010 …