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Ep 153 Pediatric Minor Head Injury and Concussion

Emergency Medicine Cases

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The Pros and Cons of Fast MRI in the Emergency Department

In follow-up after a skull fracture they may require an MRI in the emerge I understand there's this sort of newish protocol called the fast MRI which some centers are offering instead of CT. Can you tell us a little bit about whether there's a role for MRI acutely in the emergency department that can obviate the radiation effects of CT? "I would really be advocating to do a fast MRI and that type of child as to not give them their eighth or ninth or tenth CT"

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