Considerations for neurosurgeons: recommendations from the CDC Pediatric Mild Traumatic Brain Injury Guideline

Affiliations

¹ 1Penn State University, Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, Penn State Health, Department of Neurosurgery, Hershey, Pennsylvania.
² 2Division of Unintentional Injury Prevention, National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia.
³ 3Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard University, Department of Neurosurgery, Boston, Massachusetts; and.
⁴ 4St. Joseph's Children's Hospital, Department of Pediatric Neurosurgery, Tampa, Florida.

Shelly D Timmons et al. J Neurosurg. 2019.

. 2019 Jun 7;131(3):979-983.

doi: 10.3171/2019.3.JNS183339. Print 2019 Sep 1.

¹ 1Penn State University, Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, Penn State Health, Department of Neurosurgery, Hershey, Pennsylvania.
² 2Division of Unintentional Injury Prevention, National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia.
³ 3Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard University, Department of Neurosurgery, Boston, Massachusetts; and.
⁴ 4St. Joseph's Children's Hospital, Department of Pediatric Neurosurgery, Tampa, Florida.

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Disclosures

The authors report no conflict of interest concerning the materials or methods used in this study or the findings specified in this paper.

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