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As this module builds on the information from the Clinical Decision Rules (CDRs) module, it is important that you have completed it prior to commencing this module.
Duration: 120 minutes
Learning Outcomes
This module will answer the following questions:
- What is this condition?
- How can clinical decision rules help to standardise pre-test risk evaluation of children and younger adolescents with blunt head trauma?
- What clinical decision rules can help to determine pre-test risk of clinically important intracranial injury in paediatric patients with head trauma?
- What else do you need to think about, other than pre-test probability of a condition, when you are considering performing diagnostic imaging in a paediatric patient with blunt head trauma?
Module Resources
- Module Chapter (PDF)
- Paediatric Head Trauma (iBook)
CDR Summaries
- CATCH (PDF)
- CHALICE (PDF)
- PECARN (PDF)
- Pocket size – CATCH (PDF)
- Pocket size – CHALICE (PDF)
- Pocket size – PECARN (PDF)
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