Department of Neurological Surgery, Loyola University Chicago, Stritch School of Medicine, 4Department of Neurosurgery, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, 1Department of Neurosurgery, University of California, Los Angeles, David Geffen School of Medicine, 3Department of Neurosurgery, Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California, Los Angel...

The fourth edition of this widely used reference text of pediatric surgery certainly lives up to the golden standards of the earlier editions. This large, two-volume work is composed of monographs from 149 pediatric surgeons, most of whom are experts in their fields. The five editors have done a superb job of compiling such a massive amount of information and have, for the most part, refined th...

OBJECTIVE We aim to formulate evidence-based recommendations to assist physicians decision-making in the assessment and management of children younger than 16 years presenting to the emergency department (ED) following a blunt head trauma with no suspicion of non-accidental injury. METHODS These guidelines were commissioned by the Italian Society of Pediatric Emergency Medicine and include a ...