Head Injuries Outcomes Research 
Don't Forget the Bubbles
NOVEMBER 11, 2024
One-liner… Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a leading cause of mortality and morbidity in paediatric populations, and fever is associated with worse outcomes. A 12-year-old boy presents with a significant head injury following a road traffic accident. Four RCTs showed no significant difference in mortality or outcomes.
Pediatric EM Morsels
JULY 21, 2023
We have mentioned the Glasgow Coma Scale in multiple delicious morsels: Minor closed head injuries in <3 month olds and in the rebaked morsel , Blunt cerebrovascular injury , Cerebral edema in DKA , Pediatric Trauma Pitfalls , and Carbon monoxide poisoning.
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The Trauma Pro
OCTOBER 6, 2023
Although many of these injuries were managed within hours, a growing number were delayed by a few days to improve outcomes. The first is from an international research group that searched the usual databases and initially found 921 records. It is from a group of researchers from our big Boston trauma centers and the Netherlands.
The Trauma Pro
SEPTEMBER 12, 2023
The authors are given very little print space to fully describe their research idea, their methods, and their results’ significance. Even then, it needs to be taken in context with past, similar research before trickling down to patient care. But mercifully, this does not happen often. The first abstract is fascinating.
RebelEM
FEBRUARY 29, 2024
1, 2 Its occurrence often portends worse outcomes in intubated patients, whose projected hospital course was already tenuous. 3, 6 Among patients with stroke or traumatic brain injury (TBI), the risk may be as high as 28%-76% and 23%-60%, respectively. 4, 8 Paper: Dahyot-Fizelier, C.,
The Skeptics' Guide to EM
JULY 17, 2018
He is also the CME editor for Academic Emergency Medicine Case: You’re working in a small rural emergency department when a seven-year-old girl comes in by EMS with a head injury. She hit a rock, and went over the bars, striking her head on a small tree as she fell. Corey Heitz is an emergency physician in Roanoke, Virginia.
The Skeptics' Guide to EM
FEBRUARY 3, 2024
Excluded: Oropharyngeal trauma combined with other severe head injury or multisystem trauma, not primary research, non-English publication * Intervention: CTA * Comparison: No CTA * Outcome: radiologic and clinical outcomes including infection, injury to vasculature, cerebrovascular injury, and neurologic abnormalities.
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