2005 EMS Head Injuries 
Pediatric EM Morsels
JULY 21, 2023
We had just received a young child from EMS who was post-ictal with decreased mentation. Simpson 1991] No one system universally accepted like adult standard GCS [Simpson 1991, Jain 2022] “There is an evident need for valid standards of paediatric head injury severity, to permit comparisons of different methods of treatment.”
RebelEM
FEBRUARY 29, 2024
11 Curiously, VAP in patients with traumatic head injury does not appear to increase mortality, but does increase ventilator time, ICU, and hospital length of stay. Am J Respir Crit Care Med 2005 , 171 (4), 388-416. Bacterial colonization patterns in mechanically ventilated patients with traumatic and medical head injury.
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