Hospitalizing children with normal CT scans after blunt head trauma is not necessary, study suggests Date: June 23, 2011 Source: University of California - Davis Health System ...

The biomarker results—97.6% of patients with a CT-detected intracranial injury such as bleeding tested positive, and 99.7% of patients with a negative test had a normal head CT scan—were quite ...

Most of those with normal computed tomography (CT) scans do not require hospitalization for further observation, a large, national multi-center study has found.

A cranial CT scan is known by a variety of names as well, including brain scan, head scan, skull scan, and sinus scan. This procedure is noninvasive, meaning it doesn’t require surgery.

Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a disturbance of normal brain functions due to a head injury that everyone is at risk. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates that 138 ...

Decisions on CT Scans Can Be Based on Neurological Status Dr. Almenawer and colleagues extended the same method to patients reported in 15 previous studies of CT scanning after mild head injury.

The CT scan on the left shows a normal child's brain, while the one on the right is the brain of a child who has been the victim of emotional trauma. Bruce D Perry/The Child Trauma Academy Can you ...

Although his blood work came back normal, brain imaging scans revealed a strange, 3.5-inch pocket of air in his head. CT scan showing an air pocket located in the right frontal lobe of an Irish ...

In May 2017, I had a brain CT scan because my blood pressure was high and I was having some pain on the left side of my head. ... The brain CT scan was read as “normal.” ...

None of these features were present at base line in 96 of the 235 patients who underwent CT scanning of the head (41 percent). The CT scan was normal in 93 of these 96 patients, yielding a ...

The average brain dose per head or neck CT in 2012-2014, 38 mGy, was associated with excess brain cancer risk compared with a brain dose of 0 mGy (RR 1.5, 95% CI 1.2-2.0).

Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a disturbance of normal brain functions due to a head injury that everyone is at risk. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates that 138 ...