Abusive Head Trauma and Mortality-An Analysis From an International Comparative Effectiveness Study of Children With Severe Traumatic Brain Injury.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Small series have suggested that outcomes after abusive head trauma are less favorable than after other injury mechanisms. We sought to determine the impact of abusive head trauma on mortality and identify factors that differentiate children with abusive head trauma from those with traumatic brain injury from other mechanisms.

Design

First 200 subjects from the Approaches and Decisions in Acute Pediatric Traumatic Brain Injury Trial-a comparative effectiveness study using an observational, cohort study design.

Setting

PICUs in tertiary children's hospitals in United States and abroad.

Patients

Consecutive children (age < 18 yr) with severe traumatic brain injury (Glasgow Coma Scale ≤ 8; intracranial pressure monitoring).

Interventions

None.

SUBMITTER: Miller Ferguson N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5511066 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature