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Keep track of your child’s concussion symptoms, and share them with the doctor. This may help the doctor identify the best treatment for your child’s symptoms. You may also need to take your child to see a specialist experienced in treating brain injuries. Ask your child’s doctor for names of brain injury specialists in your area.
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:
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.
Guideline Model . The project leaders used the Practice Guidelines Evaluation and Adaptation Cycle (see diagram, below) as the model to evaluate and revise this guideline. The need and rationale for a guideline on pediatric concussion had already been established. Glaser Method of Reaching Consensus .
Define acute and subacute management of concussion (mild traumatic brain injury) and post concussive syndrome (PCS) To provide criteria for categorizing head injuries.
If your child can’t be woken up, call 911 immediately. • Keep the normal sleep/nap schedule. • Make sure your child drinks enough water and eats healthy foods to encourage brain healing. • Your child should play quietly for at least the first 24 hours with NO highly active play (e.g., NO running,
An individualized approach to evalua-tion and management by the pediatrician requires the development of a skillset to define the characteristics of the injury, conduct a full assessment of post-con-cussion symptoms, and define any risk history that may modify recovery.
