Trauma-Rama Part 2: Trauma Above the Clavicles- Keep Your Head on Straight

From a bump on the head to a high speed accident, head trauma, like kids, comes in all shapes and sizes. Minor head trauma is a Shakespearian dilemma: To CT or not to CT? Major head trauma is all hands on deck to protect the injured brain. All that plus the pediatric cervical spine!

References:

The granddaddy of them all in minor pediatric head trauma

The interplay of clinical gestalt and the PECARN head trauma rule

Severe Head Injury Management: Maximize CPP and Maintain Homeostasis

Review of the updated 2012 Pediatric TBI Guidelines

Post injury seizure prevention

Pediatric Cervical Spine Injuries- Rare but BAD

SCIWORA– a disease of the pediatric c-spine