Many TBI patients who undergo CT scans are unnecessarily exposed to radiation. According to a study published in the Journal of Head Trauma Rehabilitation in 2016, researchers from Johns Hopkins ...

Background: There is controversy about which children with minor head injury need to undergo computed tomography (CT). We aimed to develop a highly sensitive clinical decision rule for the use of CT ...

Overall, roughly half of US children taken to hospital Emergency Departments (EDs) for a head injury receive a head CT scan, often to ease worried parents' concerns. Yet true traumatic brain injury is ...

August 05, 2009 0 Neuroimaging Evaluation of Non-accidental Head Trauma With Correlation to Clinical Outcomes: A Review of 57 Cases Foerster BR, Petrou M, Lin D, et al J Pediatr. 2009;154:573-577 ...

The new guidelines also say a hospital doctor or specialist who is trained in dealing with sensitive cases - such as cases of domestic abuse - should be involved in checking any patient with a head ...