Shelf-inflicted head injury: a review of cranial CT yield in minor head bumps
Description
Protocol and analysis for a service evaluation of CT head yield for minor head injuries resulting from standing up under, or walking into, a cupboard or shelf.
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Subjects
- Head – Wounds and injuries
- Tomography
- Craniocerebral Trauma
- Tomography, X-Ray Computed
- Computed Tomography, Head Injury
- Subjects Allied to Medicine::Anatomy, physiology & pathology::Neuroscience
- W Medicine and related subjects (NLM Classification)::WL Nervous system
Divisions
- University of Nottingham, UK Campus::Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences::School of Medicine
Research institutes and centres
- University of Nottingham, UK Campus::Sir Peter Mansfield Imaging Centre
Deposit date
2025-06-19Data type
Protocol document and analysis planContributors
- Menon, Nitin
- Hutchinson, Rachael
Funders
- None
Collection dates
- Protocol drafted Mayl 2025
Data collection method
Retrospective review of cases recordsLegal and ethical issues
This analysis is being performed as part of a service evaluation project with retrospective use of existing clinical data, and as such does not require Research Ethics Committee review according to the UK Health Research Authority Defining Research table.Resource languages
- en

