Medical necessity of routine admission of children with mild traumatic brain injury to the intensive care unit.

Ament, Jared D; Greenan, Krista N; Tertulien, Patrick; Galante, Joseph M; Nishijima, Daniel K; Zwienenberg, Marike

Ament, Jared D; Greenan, Krista N; Tertulien, Patrick; Galante, Joseph M; Nishijima, Daniel K; Zwienenberg, Marike.

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Ament JD; Departments of 1 Neurological Surgery.
Greenan KN; Departments of 1 Neurological Surgery.
Tertulien P; Departments of 1 Neurological Surgery.
Galante JM; Trauma Surgery, and.
Nishijima DK; Emergency Medicine, University of California Davis Medical Center, Sacramento, California.
Zwienenberg M; Departments of 1 Neurological Surgery.

J Neurosurg Pediatr ; 19(6): 668-674, 2017 Jun.

Article in En | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-28387644

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Brain Concussion/therapy; Clinical Decision-Making/methods; Intensive Care Units; Age Factors; Brain/diagnostic imaging; Brain Concussion/diagnostic imaging; Brain Concussion/etiology; Child; Child, Preschool; Female; Humans; Infant; Logistic Models; Male; Multivariate Analysis; Prospective Studies; Registries; Retrospective Studies; Risk Assessment/methods; Severity of Illness Index; Tomography, X-Ray Computed; Treatment Outcome

Key words

CDR = clinical decision rule; GCS = Glasgow Coma Scale; ICH = intracranial hemorrhage; ICP = intracranial pressure; ICU = intensive care unit; ICU monitoring; IQR = interquartile range; ISS = Injury Severity Score; IVH = intraventricular hemorrhage; LOS = length of hospital stay; MLS = midline shift; MVC = motor vehicle crash; NPV = negative predictive value; PECARN = Pediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network; TBI = traumatic brain injury; clinical decision rule; resource allocation; trauma; traumatic brain injury; triage

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Full text: 1 Collection: 01-internacional Database: MEDLINE Main subject: Brain Concussion / Clinical Decision-Making / Intensive Care Units Type of study: Etiology_studies / Evaluation_studies / Observational_studies / Prognostic_studies / Risk_factors_studies Limits: Child / Child, preschool / Female / Humans / Infant / Male Language: En Journal: J Neurosurg Pediatr Year: 2017 Document type: Article

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