Critical care medicine
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Critical care medicine · Sep 1993
Editorial CommentDoes resuscitative hypothermia protect the ischemic brain?
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Critical care medicine · Sep 1993
Inflicted versus accidental head injury in critically injured children.
To assess the frequency of inflicted head injury in critically injured children; the severity of neurologic injury; the neurologic outcome; and the historical, socioeconomic, physical, and radiologic factors associated with inflicted head injury. ⋯ This study confirms that severity of neurologic injury and neurologic outcome in cases of inflicted head injury are worse than in any other type of childhood head injury. We believe that a combination of any two of the above three risk factors may prove to be a reliable marker of inflicted head injury in children admitted to a pediatric ICU and will lead to an early and definitive diagnosis.