MRI scans showing sagittal and axial views of pediatric brain structures, with arrows indicating areas of interest related to traumatic brain injury / Source: Wikimedia Commons and Radiopaedia.org contributor Dr. Ammar Ashraf
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In trauma care, we pride ourselves on getting kids through the toughest days of their lives. But what happens after the CT is cleared, the swelling’s down, and the patient wheels out of the Emergency with a discharge packet and a teddy bear?

According to a new study out of NYU Langone Health and Bellevue Hospital, what happens next—for too many kids—is nothing.


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