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J Dunning, J Patrick Daly, J-P Lomas, F Lecky, J Batchelor, K Mackway-Jones on behalf of the children’s head injury algorithm for the prediction of important clinical events (CHALICE) study group

Derivation of the children’s head injury algorithm for the prediction of important clinical events decision rule for head injury in children
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Practical issues: Marion Schmidt (27 October 2006)

Practical issues

27 October 2006

Marion Schmidt,
Consultant Paediatrician

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marion.schmidt{at}gwent.wales.nhs.uk Marion Schmidt

Dear Editor,

Thanks you for a very thourough study addressing the important issue of head injury in children.

However in practical terms doing a CT scan on 14 % of all children presenting to A+E with head injury can be difficult.

Many children particularly toddlers will not allow a scan without sedation or a general anaesthetic which again increase the risk associated with CT. In a DGH setting there are often anaesthetists on call with little experience with children and an understandable reluctance to anaesthetise a child who is well but has e.g. vomited more than 3 times.

How do you address this within your hospitals ?

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