Sentences with phrase «child after head injury»

Given the results of a a new study reported in the British medical journal, The Lancet4 that children and young adults scanned multiple times by CT have a small increased risk of leukemia and brain tumors in the decade following their first scan, parents should make sure a CT scan is really necessary in treatment of their child after head injury.

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Studies are also showing that the enactment of Lystedt laws in 48 states and the District of Columbia (all since May 2009, a year after my speech), which require that parents receive at least some minimal head injury information as a prerequisite for their child's sports participation, is increasing awareness.

Nonetheless, you'll need to keep a close eye on your child during the forty - eight hours after a head injury because it can take that much time for damaged veins to leak and cause swelling in the brain.»

After a possible head injury, this app guides coaches and parents on how to assess the injury and how best to respond by providing current medical guidance on when to call 911 or if the child should be removed from play.

A five - year old child with a head injury after cutting their head on a single entrance gate in a school; a three - year old hospitalised and nearly blinded after a gate in a park swung back and hit him in the head; a six - year old child losing part of his thumb after it was crushed in the hinge of a playground gate — these are just some examples of the injuries that can occur with a badly installed or poorly maintained manual gate.

On Aug. 19, 2007: A 16 - month - old child received fatal head and neck injuries after being attacked by a mixed - breed dog.

Although her main emphasis throughout her career as a veterinarian has been small animal general medicine and surgery, prior to veterinary school she spent three years as a research associate in the department of (human) neurosurgery at th Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and Children's Hospital of Philadelphia investigating the biochemical changes that occur in the brain after severe head injury.

Other cases may be much more complex; for example contributory negligence from a head injured individual who was not wearing a helmet, life expectancy after a devastating head injury in a child, or causation in terms of outcome from a delay in diagnosis.

For example, a child sustains a serious head injury after falling in your store.