Bicycling accidents cause many serious injuries and, in the United States, about 1300
deaths per year, mainly from head injuries. Safety helmets are widely recommended for …

✓ A series of 8814 head-injured patients admitted to 41 hospitals in three separate
metropolitan areas were prospectively studied. Of these, 1906 patients (21.6%) were 14 …

Over the last decade, the sport of mountain biking has experienced extensive growth in
youth participation. Due to the unpredictable nature of outdoor sport, a lack of rider …

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• The number of fatal brain injuries and hospital admissions for brain injuries in children up
to 15 years old in San Diego County, California, were ascertained from emergency room …

Acute brain injury is the cause of approximately 100,000 pediatric hospital admissions per
year in the United States. This report examines the nature of the brain injury, clinical …

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Injury to the head is the most common affected body
part in pediatric trauma and could be associated with deleterious consequences. It presents …

A comprehensive neuropathological study was undertaken on 87 children aged between 2
and 15 years with fatal head injuries to identify those features which occurred at the time of …

We prospectively studied 653 consecutive head-injured children (< 14 years old) treated
over a 54-month period (1984–88) at the Department of Neurosurgery of the Rambam …

The hospital-reported incidence of mild head injury among children indicates a prevalence
of 2% to 3% in high-school-aged adolescents (14 to 18 years). Yet, our survey of 616 high …