Open AccessCaring for traumatic brain injury in children can be a challenge!
Author(s) -
Chun-Yu Chen,
Han-Ping Wu
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
journal of emergencies, trauma and shock
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.313
H-Index - 29
eISSN - 0974-519X
pISSN - 0974-2700
DOI - 10.4103/0974-2700.82198
Subject(s) - traumatic brain injury , glasgow outcome scale , outcome (game theory) , medicine , head injury , glasgow coma scale , pediatrics , intensive care medicine , psychiatry , mathematics , mathematical economics
Traumatic brain injury is the most common cause of morbidity and mortality in children. However, it is still challengeable to early predict the outcome of individual patients with severe head injuries. Glasgow outcome scale is the most widely used scoring system in evaluating neurological outcome for head injury patients. Moreover, it is likely to underestimate morbidity and is not always readily applicable in children. It is an important issue to develop a practical, reliable and valid neurological outcome instrument in children in forwarding research.