Citation

Jackson BF. Pediatr. Emerg. Care 2010; 26(2): 143-145.

Affiliation

Division of Emergency Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC 29425, USA. jacksobf@musc.edu

Copyright

(Copyright © 2010, Lippincott Williams and Wilkins)

DOI

10.1097/PEC.0b013e3181ce30d8

PMID

20145507

Abstract

The presentation of vomiting and bradycardia after closed head trauma should invariably prompt concern for significant intracranial injury, yet other less common causes for the clinical picture do exist. This case reports one such scenario in which fracture to the patient's inferior orbital wall resulted in the rare though potentially life-threatening oculocardiac reflex, a vagally mediated phenomenon with possible respiratory, cardiovascular, and gastric motility effects.

Language: en