@article{ref1,
title="Heart injury in head-injured adolescents",
journal="Child's nervous system",
year="1985",
author="Sutherland, G. R. and Amacher, A. L. and Sibbald, W. J. and Driedger, A. L.",
volume="1",
number="4",
pages="219-222",
abstract="Of 19 adolescents (ages 10-18) admitted consecutively because of major blunt-impact trauma, 15 had head injuries (Glasgow coma scales 4-15). Eight had cardiac injury (42%), as demonstrated by cardiac wall-motion studies utilizing ECG-gated radionuclide angiography. Of the head-injured patients, 7 had cardiac injury (47%), and of these, one died in cardiac shock. Significant cardiac injury is known both experimentally and clinically to escape detection by conventional methods and a compromised cardiac output may bode ill for a damaged brain if cerebral perfusion pressure is in jeopardy.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0256-7040",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}