Traumatic brain injury in young children with isolated scalp haematoma

Bressan, Silvia; Kochar, Amit; Oakley, Ed; Borland, Meredith; Phillips, Natalie; Dalton, Sarah; Lyttle, Mark D.; Hearps, Stephen; Cheek, John Alexander; Furyk, Jeremy; Neutze, Jocelyn; Dalziel, Stuart; Babl, Franz E.

Abstract

Objective Despite high-quality paediatric head trauma clinical prediction rules, the management of otherwise asymptomatic young children with scalp haematomas (SH) can be difficult. We determined the risk of intracranial injury when SH is the only predictor variable using definitions from the Pediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network (PECARN) and Children’s Head Injury Algorithm for the Prediction of Important Clinical Events (CHALICE) head trauma rules.

Design Planned secondary analysis of a multicentre prospective observational study.

Setting Ten emergency departments in Australia and New Zealand.

Patients Children 5 cm haematoma in any region of the head) rule-based definition of isolated SH in both children

Citation

Bressan, S., Kochar, A., Oakley, E., Borland, M., Phillips, N., Dalton, S., …Babl, F. E. (2019). Traumatic brain injury in young children with isolated scalp haematoma. Archives of Disease in Childhood, 104(7), 664-669. https://doi.org/10.1136/archdischild-2018-316066

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Jan 21, 2019
• Online Publication Date: Mar 4, 2019
• Publication Date: Jun 19, 2019
• Deposit Date: Jul 24, 2020
• Publicly Available Date: Jul 28, 2020
• Journal: Archives of Disease in Childhood
• Print ISSN: 0003-9888
• Electronic ISSN: 1468-2044
• Publisher: BMJ Publishing Group
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 104
• Issue: 7
• Pages: 664-669
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1136/archdischild-2018-316066
• Keywords: Pediatrics, Perinatology, and Child Health
• Public URL: https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/6137448