Background: Head injuries in children are responsible for a large number of emergency department visits. Failure to identify a clinically significant intracranial injury in a timely fashion may result in long term neurodisability and death. Whilst cr... Read More about A prospective observational study to assess the diagnostic accuracy of clinical decision rules for children presenting to emergency departments after head injuries (protocol): The Australasian Paediatric Head Injury Rules Study (APHIRST).
Mark Lyttle's Outputs (10)
Early management of head injury: Summary of updated NICE guidance (2014)
Journal Article
Head injury is the commonest cause of death and disability in people aged 1-40 years in the UK. Each year, 1.4 million people attend emergency departments in England and Wales with a recent head injury. The National Institute for Health and Care Exce... Read More about Early management of head injury: Summary of updated NICE guidance.
From cradle to adolescence: The development of Research in European Pediatric Emergency Medicine (2014)
Journal Article
Pediatric emergency medicine (PEM) has been developing rapidly but heterogeneously in many European countries in recent years, and many national PEM societies have been founded to improve the quality of care of ill and injured children and adolescent... Read More about From cradle to adolescence: The development of Research in European Pediatric Emergency Medicine.
When do children get burnt? (2014)
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© 2014 Elsevier Ltd and ISBI. All rights reserved. Burns are a cause of more than 5000 paediatric hospital admissions per year in England and Wales. Injury prevention and service provision may be better planned with knowledge of burn timing. Prospect... Read More about When do children get burnt?.