Imaging of pediatric head injury in the emergency department

Pediatric Emergency Care

Volumn 30, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 680-685

  Wylie, Matthew C ^a   Merritt, Chris ^a   Clark, Melissa ^b   Garro, Aris C ^a   Rutman, Maia S ^c  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c DARTMOUTH HITCHCOCK MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

computed tomography; head injury; magnetic resonance imaging; traumatic brain injury

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILDHOOD INJURY; COMMUNITY HOSPITAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY WARD; HEAD INJURY; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LOW VOLUME HOSPITAL; MEDICAL PRACTICE; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION HAZARD; RESIDENCY EDUCATION; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CRANIOCEREBRAL TRAUMA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; UTILIZATION;

CHILD; CRANIOCEREBRAL TRAUMA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRACTICE PATTERNS, PHYSICIANS'; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84930087882     PISSN: 07495161     EISSN: 15351815     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PEC.0000000000000227     Document Type: Article

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