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Keep your child calm and limit TV and screen time. • Call your child’s healthcare provider to tell them about the injury to your child’s head and find out signs to watch out for. Your child should be monitored for symptoms for at least 2 -3 weeks.
about diagnosis and treatment for a concussion should be directed to your child’s healthcare provider. After your child’s concussion, call 9-1-1 if your child develops: If you do not feel like your child is getting better, talk with his or her doctor. Keep track of your child’s concussion symptoms, and share them with the doctor.
The panel agreed to use the definition of concussion provided in the 5th Consensus statement on concussion in sport (Berlin, 2016). A comprehensive literature search was performed to identify research that might be relevant to the diagnosis and management of pediatric concussion. Inclusion criteria: Concussion/mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI)
Concussion is a traumatically induced physiological disruption of brain function where the Glasgow Coma Score range is 13 to 15 and has at least one of the following manifestations:
Define acute and subacute management of concussion (mild traumatic brain injury) and post concussive syndrome (PCS) To provide criteria for categorizing head injuries.
This handout describes common concussion symptoms your child may experience, and tips you can use to help with their recovery. Most children with a concussion, a type of traumatic brain injury, feel better within a couple of weeks. However, for some, symptoms will last for a month or longer.
Keep track of your child’s concussion symptoms and share them with their doctor or nurse. This may help their doctor or nurse identify the best treatments for your child’s symptoms. You may also need to take your child to see a specialist in treating brain injuries.
