NCT00456391

The Utility of Performing Brain CT Scan in Non Trauma Patients at the Pediatric Emergency Unit

The Utility of Performing Brain CT Scan in Non Trauma Patients at the Pediatric Emergency Unit. A Retrospective Observational Study.

• Status: Completed
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: —
• Sponsor: HaEmek Medical Center, Israel · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Pediatric patients are admitted to the emergency room for diverse causes, beside trauma, patients can present with convulsions, suspicion of brain tumor or increased intracranial pressure. In most of the cases a brain CT is performed even before physical examination by a skilled neurologist. The amount of radiation that the children are exposed is equivalent to 100 plain chest X rays. The purpose of this tudy is to examinate in a retrospective study what were the indications for CT study and what was the incidence of relevant abnormal findings that required emergency intervention or referral.

Conditions

• Convulsions
• Increased Intracraneal Pressure

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
PROCEDURE	Medical history
PROCEDURE	Brain CT scan

Timeline

• Start date: 2006-10-01
• Completion: 2007-03-01
• First posted: 2007-04-05
• Last updated: 2007-04-05

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Israel