Risk stratification of intermediate-risk children with minor head injury: a secondary publication translated into Korean

Abstract

The Pediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network rule helps emergency physicians identify very low-risk children with minor head injury who can forgo head computed tomography. This rule contributes to reducing lifetime risk of radiation-induced cancers while minimizing missing clinically important traumatic brain injury. However, in intermediate-risk children, decisions on whether to perform computed tomography remain at the emergency physicians' discretion. To reduce this gray zone, this review summarizes evidence for risk stratification of intermediate-risk children with minor head injury.

Keywords

• craniocerebral trauma
• decision support techniques
• multidetector computed tomography
• neoplasms, radiation-induced
• radiation, ionizing
• risk assessment