OBJECTIVE To determine factors associated with vomiting after minor head injury in a paediatric population with the intention of defining the role of vomiting in management decisions. METHODS A prospective study of all patients presenting with minor head injury to the Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Edinburgh, between 1 May and 30 June 1997. Information regarding basic demographics, feature...

STUDY OBJECTIVE To examine the trends in childhood head injury mortality in Scotland between 1986 and 1995. DESIGN Analysis of routine mortality data from the registrar general for Scotland. SETTING Scotland, UK. SUBJECTS Children aged 0-14 years. MAIN RESULTS A total of 290 children in Scotland died as a result of a head injury between 1986 and 1995. While there was a significant decli...

BACKGROUND Head injury represents an extremely common presentation to emergency departments (ED), but not all patients present immediately after injury. There is evidence that clinical deterioration following head injury will usually occur within 24 h. It is unclear whether this means that head injury patients that present in a delayed manner, especially after 24 h, have a lower prevalence of s...

Recently, several cases of mild traumatic brain injury to American professional football players have been reconstructed using instrumented Hybrid III anthropomorphic test dummies ATDs. The translational and rotational acceleration responses of injured and uninjured players' heads have been documented. The acceleration data have been processed according to all current head injury assessment fun...

over half of all reported traumatic brain injuries are the result of a motor vehicle accident. other then the direct head impact itself, the sheer forces of the accident can cause the brain also to collide against the internal bone of the skull. in fact, when a moving head comes to a quick stop, the brain continues in its movement, striking the interior of the skull. this can cause bruising of ...

Head injury is a major cause of disability and death in adults. Significant developments in imaging techniques have contributed to the knowledge of the pathophysiology of head injury. Although extensive research is available on severe head injury, less is known about mild-to-moderate head injury despite the fact that most patients sustain this type of injury. In this review, we focus on structu...