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Investigation of blunt head trauma

06/10/2012 by Bob Dunn

This page in the Trauma section has been revised to include a better description of the populations to which each of the CT head decision rules apply and their strengths and weaknesses. A more detailed description of the New Orleans rule has been added.

Categories Updates
Greater tuberosity of the humerus fractures.
BLS / ACLS / Defibrillation

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Associate Professor Robert Dunn

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Associate Professor Meredith Borland
Dr Deborah O'Brien
Dr Stuart Dilley
Dr Jennifer Brookes
Associate Professor Deborah Leach

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Renal failure = GFR < 15 mL/min/1.73 m2

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In medicine we have diagnosis, which is a matter of faith; prognosis, which is a matter of hope; and treatment, which is only too often an affair of charity. But the greatest of these is diagnosis. For without a proper diagnosis, it is impossible to forecast the course and outcome of a disease or to treat it satisfactorily. --Sir Robert Hutchison

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