tailieunhanh - Head Injury Triage, assessment, investigation and early management of head injury in infants, children and adults

Head injury refers to trauma of the head. This may or may not include injury to the brain. However, the terms traumatic brain injury and head injury are often used interchangeably in medical incidence (number of new cases) of head injury is 300 of every 100,000 per year ( of the population), with a mortality rate of 25 per 100,000 in North America and 9 per 100,000 in Britain. Head trauma is a common cause of childhood hospitalization. | Head Injury National Collaborating Centre for Acute Care Triage assessment investigation and early management of head injury in infants children and adults METHODS EVIDENCE GUIDANCE SEPTEMBER 2007 Commissioned by the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence Head Injury triage assessment investigation and early management of head injury in infants children and adults. METHODS EVIDENCE GUIDANCE Head Injury triage assessment investigation and early management of head injury in infants children and adults. 2 Published by the National Collaborating Centre for Acute Care at The Royal College of Surgeons of England 35-43 Lincoln s Inn Fields London WC2A 3PE First published June 2003 National Collaborating Centre for Acute Care 2007 Apart from any fair dealing for the purposes of research or private study criticism or review as permitted under the Copyright Designs and Patents Act 1988 no part of this publication may be reproduced stored or transmitted in any form or by any means without the prior written permission of the publisher or in the case of reprographic reproduction in accordance with the terms of licences issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency in the UK. Enquiries concerning reproduction outside the terms stated here should be sent to the publisher at the UK address printed on this page. The use of registered names trademarks etc. in this publication does not imply even in the absence of a specific statement that such names are exempt from the relevant laws and regulations and therefore for general use. The rights of National Collaborating Centre for Acute Care to be identified as Author of this work have been asserted by them in accordance with the Copyright Designs and Patents Act 1988. ISBN .