TY - JOUR PY - 2010// TI - Orbital trauma, bradycardia, and vomiting: trapdoor fracture and the oculocardiac reflex: a case report JO - Pediatric emergency care A1 - Jackson, Benjamin F. SP - 143 EP - 145 VL - 26 IS - 2 N2 - 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.

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LA - en SN - 0749-5161 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/PEC.0b013e3181ce30d8 ID - ref1 ER -