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Article: Canadian Study Suggests Guidelines For Use Of CT Scans For Minor ...
Medical Devices & Surgical Technology Week;  June 10, 2001 ;     700+ words ... ... sensitive decision rule for computed tomography (CT) scans described ... patients with minor head injury. An estimated one million patients with head injury are seen yearly in North ... patients with minor head injury. Ian Stiell and colleagues ...

Article: Minor Head Injury - The CHIP Prediction ...
Urgent Care Alert;  May 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... with minor head injury suggest that the use of computed tomography (CT) may ... findings on computed tomography in patients with minor head injury: The CHIP ... complications is computed tomography. Because ... with minor head injury do not show ...

Article: Closed head injury in elderly and nonelderly ...
JAAPA-Journal of the American Academy of Physicians Assistants;  April 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ... ... with traumatic closed head injury (CHI). Methods ... of CHI confirmed by computed tomography (CT). Results ... overall incidence of head injury in the United States ... for traumatic closed head injury (CHI). With increasing ...

Article: Single photon emission computed tomography
Gale Encyclopedia of Mental Disorders;      700+ words ... ... Single photon emission computed tomography Definition Single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) is an imaging ... persons affected with head injury. Epilepsy: The radioactive ... imaging studies such as computed tomography, magnetic resonance ...

Article: Is Repeated Head Computed Tomography Necessary for ...
The American Surgeon;  September 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... determine the need for repeat head computed tomography (CT) in patients with blunt ... trauma center for treatment of head injury. Seventeen per cent (255 ... rapidly diagnosed and treated. Computed tomography (CT) of the head is currently ...

Article: Absence of precedent may limit use of SPECT.(Forensic ...
Clinical Psychiatry News;  January 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... Single-photon emission computed tomography may be considered useful in ... that single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT)--which measures ... head trauma vs. preexisting head injury or other coexisting damage ...

Article: New treatment may awaken patients from severe comas. ...
Insight on the News;  October 30, 1995 ;     700+ words ... ... single-photon emission-computed tomography, see sidebar.) According ... memory. Unlike Smith, most head-injury patients do not have the ... notes. "But many of these head-injury patients belong to recovery ... HBO therapy for long-term head-injury cases, most come from ...