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5 Paediatrics
5.3 Head Injury in Children Management
REFERENCES
1. “The Canadian CT Head Rule for patients with minor HI”-The Lancet May 2001
2. “A clinical Decision Rule for the use of head CT in children with minor head injury”-Academic Emergency Medicine May 2004-09-29
3. “Does an isolated history of loss of conciousness or amnesia predict brain injuries in children after biunt head trauma” Paediatrics Jun 2004-09-29
4. NICE- June 2003
5. “Early management of patients with a head injury”-SIGN-2001 Scotish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network
6. “The implications of NICE guidelines on the management of children presenting with head injury” Arch Dis Child- Aug 2004
7. “Association among duration of unconciousness, Glagow coma scale and cranial computed tomography abnormalities in head injury children” Clinical paediatrics Jul 2001
8. “Head injury-abuse or accident “-Arch Dis Child May 1997
9. “Making the best use of a department of clinical radiology”-The Royal college of radiologists-2003
10. “Head injury: Which patients need imaging? Which test is best?” Cleveland clinic journal of medicine April 2004-09-29
11. “Imaging the less seriously head injury child”-Arch Dis Child 2000
12. “The management of minor closed head injury in children” American Academy of Paediatrics-1999
13. “The NICE guidelines in the real world:a practical perspective. EMJ July 2004
14. “Reducing unnecessary skull radiographs in children: a multidisciplinary audit” Clinical Radiology July 2004
15. “A meta-analysis of variables that predict significant intracraneal injury in minor head trauma” J Dunning Archives of disease in childhood 2004