Ep 153 Pediatric Minor Head Injury and Concussion
Emergency Medicine Cases
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How to Assess a Child's GCS
Dr. Reed: Physical exam is to assess whether they're at high risk for clinically important outcome and require a CT scan. The other one is to assess their risk for having post concussive syndrome so that you can counsel them appropriately in that case. We'll have those on the show notes in terms of exactly what tests to do, but I'm sure Dr. Zemic could probably do this physical exam in three minutes flat right? Or less?" "It takes a bit of practice to be able to do this in the pre-verbal child," she says. 'Having a cognitive tool will really help'
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