Radiopaedia Helpers

Acronyms

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"Investigating head injury is frequently required because head injury is common: in the US there are 1.3 million traumatic brain injuries per year ¹. Causes include falls (children and the elderly), motor vehicle accidents (adults) ¹, or direct trauma from an object, assault or inflicted injuries (paediatric patients)."

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"what was the GCS and what is it now?"

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"does a CT need to be done?NICE guidance, Canadian CT head rules"

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"questions"

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"investigations"

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"making the request"

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"common pathology"

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Headings Valid

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Expected headings

H1 Reference article
H1 Summary
H1 Role of imaging
H1 Radiographic features
H1 See also

"This is a basic article for medical students and other non-radiologists"

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"Teaching playlist"

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Oxford Comma

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"Investigating head injury is frequently required because head injury is common: in the US there are 1.3 million traumatic brain injuries per year ¹. Causes include falls (children and the elderly), motor vehicle accidents (adults) ¹, or direct trauma from an object, assault or inflicted injuries (paediatric patients)."

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Semicolons

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"This is a summary article; read more in our article on traumatic brain injury."

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Lint: investigating-head-injury-summary