Concussions and Head Trauma

Sorry for the absence from the blog world! Clearly, residency has been making it tough to write! Anyway, I have been working in the outpatient world lately and I saw a teenager after being released from the ER after sustaining a head injury. It was a head to head collision in which the child started slurring his words and had neurological signs! No imagining was done and he was sent home after being watched for about 6 hours.  I think this management is debatable and could be talked about below.

I think we have all noticed an increase in the amount of press coverage of head trauma over the past few years. I thought about writing this article after seeing the following story: College Athlete Died of Head Trauma, Father SaysWe as pediatricians are much more careful about return to play now and in fact all patients should return to play in a step-wise fashion after first taking a full week off. It is sad to see another person die because of possible mismanagement and/or under appreciation of the severity of head trauma.