Children | Head injuries | Medical emergencies: Today, an editorial from the New England Journal of Medicine counsels doctors and parents to pay special attention to what might appear to be minor head injuries in order to protect children under their special attention and care.
Many of you know that, from time to time, I write about children and social issues or other family issues that are medical, not legal.
To keep up with current medical issues, I subscribe to alerts from various medical journals. An alert about children's head injuries so
moved me today that I am compelled to share it with you. Thanks to the
New England Journal of Medicine for making this comment available to
all.
The Moral of the Story
By Perri Klass, M.D.
The Moral of the Story
I came home the other night clutching a scrap of paper towel with a mother's cell-phone number scribbled on it. I had been precepting in the residents' pediatric primary care clinic, and an intern had presented a patient: a 20-month-old boy who had been brought in by his mother because he was vomiting. He'd thrown up seven times since 2 that morning. No diarrhea, but he wasn't eating or drinking much. Still, he didn't look dehydrated, his mother said he'd had several wet diapers, and when the intern examined him, she found his diaper wet again. [MORE] [May require a one-time registration]
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