Concussions and closed head injuries are incredibly common in the Pediatric Emergency Department and in general Emergency Department, especially as we head into fall contact sports season. In this episode, featuring Brielle Stanton, MD, a Pediatric Emergency Medicine fellow from The UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh, you will earn how to differentiate clinically important traumatic brain injuries from milder trauma – specifically when to get a CT, and how to diagnose and manage concussions.
Resources
MD Calc: Pediatric Head Injury/Trauma Algorithm
Healthy Children: Concussions: What parents Need to Know
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