Citation

Ko Y, Lee JS, Chae MK, Ahn JH, Kim HH, Park EJ, Kim JH. Pediatr. Emerg. Care 2019; ePub(ePub): ePub.

Affiliation

From the Department of Emergency Medicine, Ajou University School of Medicine, Suwon, Korea.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2019, Lippincott Williams and Wilkins)

DOI

10.1097/PEC.0000000000001938

PMID

31688704

Abstract

The Pediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network rule helps emergency physicians identify very low-risk children with minor head injury who can forgo head computed tomography. This rule contributes to reduction in lifetime risk of radiation-induced cancers while minimizing missing clinically important traumatic brain injury. However, in intermediate-risk children, decisions on whether to perform computed tomography remain at the emergency physicians' discretion. To reduce this gray zone, this review summarizes evidence for risk stratification of intermediate-risk children with minor head injury.

Language: en