Not all children are receiving the same level or form of care following a pediatric traumatic brain injury. Those who are on the less fortunate side of these discrepancies are suffering the ...

Delivering high-quality emergency care for kids may mean fewer CT scans, according to a new study from UC Davis Health's Department of Emergency Medicine. The IAI and TBI prediction rules were created ...

Children who died soon after moderate or severe TBI had more bilateral brain swelling than adults. At autopsy, pediatric TBI patients had predominantly microvascular blood-brain barrier disruption. In ...

PITTSBURGH, – Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh and UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh discovered a promising new biomarker of “complicated” mild- to severe-pediatric traumatic brain ...

A study led by the University of Glasgow has revealed differences in the brains of pediatric and adult patients that might explain the sometimes catastrophic outcomes seen in children following a ...

Clinicians recommend a threshold of less than 20 mm Hg for treatment of ICP in pediatric patients and an even lower threshold for infants and young children. Due to the heterogenous pathophysiology ...

A TBI is defined as brain damage or a disruption to brain function caused by a sudden external force. Based on clinical findings and brain scan results, it is usually categorized as mild, intermediate ...

Bilateral brain swelling was more common in children than in adults who died after moderate or severe traumatic brain injury (TBI), an autopsy case series showed. At autopsy, macroscopic evidence of ...

Delivering high-quality emergency care for kids may mean fewer CT scans, according to a new study. The research validates intra-abdominal injury (IAI) and traumatic brain injury (TBI) prediction rules ...