{"id":476,"date":"2021-12-02T01:57:03","date_gmt":"2021-12-02T01:57:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/?p=476"},"modified":"2021-12-02T01:57:14","modified_gmt":"2021-12-02T01:57:14","slug":"updated-cpg-head-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/updated-cpg-head-injury\/","title":{"rendered":"Updated CPG: Head injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/guideline_index\/Head_injury\/\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">Head injury<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0CPG has been updated and reviewed by the CPG committee.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\">The Key points for the CPG are\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The priorities when assessing a child with head injury are to identify those with:<\/span><\/b><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li data-leveltext=\"%1.\" data-font=\"Calibri\" data-listid=\"38\" data-aria-posinset=\"1\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Moderate to severe head injury who need immediate management, urgent investigation and referral<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li data-leveltext=\"%1.\" data-font=\"Calibri\" data-listid=\"38\" data-aria-posinset=\"1\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Mild head injury who can be immediately discharged home<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li data-leveltext=\"%1.\" data-font=\"Calibri\" data-listid=\"38\" data-aria-posinset=\"1\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Head injury who need observation and\/or neuroimaging<\/span><\/li>\n<li data-leveltext=\"%1.\" data-font=\"Calibri\" data-listid=\"38\" data-aria-posinset=\"1\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Other significant injuries or suspected\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/guideline_index\/Child_Abuse_Guideline\/\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">child abuse<\/span><\/a><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Head injury was an existing Victorian CPG that will be considered for PIC endorsement in December 2021<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":165,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11797,28,9503],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-individual-cpg-posts","category-news","category-newsletter"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/165"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=476"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":477,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476\/revisions\/477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}