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New emergency response to head injuries in children
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Every child who presents to an emergency department with a head injury should be re-examined by a doctor within two weeks of their initial treatment according to new national guidelines developed by a Melbourne-led research team.
The guidelines â the product of a collaboration between emergency medicine physicians, GPs, neurosurgeons, radiologists, paramedics and nurses in Australia and New Zealand â are the first nationally consistent protocols for treating children with head injuries.
Jakob Salter, 15, pictured with his father Matthew Salter, was hospitalised with concussion and underwent a CT scan after crashing his BMX bike.