NEW YORK -- The number of children rushed to the emergency room because of a head injury has increased dramatically in recent years, according to the national Centers for Disease Control and ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . CT head scans were ordered in approximately 175 million ED encounters. Patients who received scans were mainly ...

To reduce unnecessary CT use, some hospitals have begun using blood-based biomarkers to guide triage in mild head trauma. With CMS preparing new Medicare diagnostic guidance, the opportunity to shift ...

Use of head CT scans in U.S. emergency departments has more than doubled over the past 15 years, a new study says. Nearly 16 million head CT scans were ordered by ERs in 2022, up from under 8 million ...

MINNEAPOLIS — A new study shows large increases in the use of computed tomography (CT) scans of the head in emergency departments across the United States from 2007 to 2022. The study, which was ...

The number of emergency department encounters that included a head CT more than doubled between 2007 and 2022, according to a study published Nov. 19 in Neurology. Researchers from the medical schools ...

Our goal in designing this study was to attempt to document a clinical means of evaluating patients with minor head injury, possibly reducing the cost of their evaluation. We hypothesized that ...

A risk-benefit analysis favours obtaining a head CT scan in adults who present to the emergency department after a first seizure. Investigators conducted a systematic review of studies among adults ...

Computed tomography (CT or CAT) scans help doctors detect everything from cancer to kidney stones. But some physicians are raising concerns about the safety of such procedures — most notably, an ...