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PECARN head injury

PECARN paediatric head injury rule (clinically important traumatic brain injury)

Decides whether a child with minor head injury needs a CT, observation, or neither, by age-stratified predictors.

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  • Closed head injury10_022
    Worked example: Saanvi Joshi, 12
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