Diagnosis and Management of Mild Traumatic Brain Injury in Children: A Systematic Review.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

In recent years, there has been an exponential increase in the research guiding pediatric mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) clinical management, in large part because of heightened concerns about the consequences of mTBI, also known as concussion, in children. The CDC National Center for Injury Prevention and Control's (NCIPC) Board of Scientific Counselors (BSC), a federal advisory committee, established the Pediatric Mild TBI Guideline workgroup to complete this systematic review summarizing the first 25 years of literature in this field of study.

Objective

To conduct a systematic review of the pediatric mTBI literature to serve as the foundation for an evidence-based guideline with clinical recommendations associated with the diagnosis and management of pediat

SUBMITTER: Lumba-Brown A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11811836 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature