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Australia s and New Zealand s first set of clinical guidelines for children s head injuries has been created by a network of specialists based at the Murdoch Children s Research Institute (MCRI).
The guidelines, developed by the Paediatric Research in Emergency Departments International Collaborative (PREDICT) and published in
Emergency Medicine Australasia, will allow emergency department clinicians to best diagnose and treat children s head injuries while reducing unnecessary exposure to radiation from CT scans. They also address head injuries in children with underlying problems, such as a bleeding disorder.
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.
Wednesday, 3 February 2021, 6:29 am
New medical guidelines may reduce unnecessary CT
scans, and the associated radiation, for children with head
injuries.
That’s according to Professor
Stuart Dalziel, who’s the Cure Kids Chair of Child Health
Research at the University of Auckland, and a paediatric
emergency physician at Starship Children’s Hospital in
Auckland.
New Zealand and Australia have come up with
their first joint guidelines for emergency doctors
diagnosing and treating mild to moderate head injuries in
children.
Professor Dalziel was one of the specialists
who contributed to the guidelines, developed by the
Paediatric Research in Emergency Departments International
07 Jan 2021 - 8:22
Dr. Khalid Al Ansari
The Peninsula
Sidra Medicine and Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC) will jointly host the 5th Qatar Pediatric Emergency Medicine (Q-PEM) Conference 2021 from January 15 to 17. The annual conference is being held virtually this year.
Q-PEM’s goal is to provide a high-quality, evidence-based update for healthcare practitioners involved in the urgent and emergent care of children.
Q-PEM 2021 Conference Chairman, Dr. Khalid Al Ansari, who is also the Chair of Emergency Medicine at Sidra Medicine said, “Q-PEM this year promises to be a memorable one, both in the quality of scientific discourse and its impact equipping frontline