TY  - JOUR
PY  - 1985//
TI  - Heart injury in head-injured adolescents
JO  - Child's nervous system
A1  - Sutherland, G. R.
A1  - Amacher, A. L.
A1  - Sibbald, W. J.
A1  - Driedger, A. L.
SP  - 219
EP  - 222
VL  - 1
IS  - 4
N2  - 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>
LA  - en
SN  - 0256-7040
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
ER  -