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Quantifying Head Injury Severity Following Pediatric Patient Falls, Janet Dufek, N.A. Ryan-Wenger, K.C Mefferd
Quantifying Head Injury Severity Following Pediatric Patient Falls, Janet Dufek, N.A. Ryan-Wenger, K.C Mefferd
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The purpose of this study was to retrospectively calculate the head injury criteria (HIC) values for pediatric patient falls and correlate these values to documented injury severity (MERP) scores. A second purpose was to examine the relationship between child ages and associated HIC15 values in an attempt to scale the values obtained from pediatrics to adult values.