title: Neurotrauma pediatric scales.
abstract: Cranial traumas have different particularities in infants, toddlers, preschool child, school child and teenagers. The assessment of these cases must be individualized according to age. It is completely different in children that in adults. Trauma scales, very useful in grading the severity and predicting outcome in traumatic brain injury, used in adults must be adapted in children. Children have age-related specificity and anatomic particularities, for each of this period of development. Neurotrauma scales, specific for infants and children, such as Pediatric Coma Scale, Children's Coma Score, Trauma Infant Neurological Score, Glasgow Coma Scale, Liege Scale are reviewed, as well as neurotrauma outcome scales, like Glasgow Outcome Scale, modified Rankin score, KOSCHI score and Barthel Index. The authors present these scales in an exhaustive manner for thoroughgoing pediatric neurotrauma standards.
authors.affiliation: Emergency Clinical Hospital Bagdasar-Arseni, 1st Department of General Surgery, UMF "Carol Davila", Bucharest. rsn@bagdasar-arseni.ro
authors.forename: Alexandru Vlad
authors.initials: AV
authors.lastname: Ciurea
authors.forename: Aurelia Mihaela
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Sandu
authors.forename: Mihai
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Popescu
authors.forename: Stefan Mircea
authors.initials: SM
authors.lastname: Iencean
authors.forename: Bogdan
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Davidescu
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D001930:Brain Injuries / Q000175:diagnosis*; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D015600:Glasgow Coma Scale; D023261:Glasgow Outcome Scale; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D015599:Trauma Severity Indices