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By Mayo Clinic staffThese steps may help to prevent or minimize head injury:
- Wear a helmet and make sure your kids wear helmets. Make sure to wear an appropriate and properly fitted helmet when playing contact sports, bicycling, motorcycling, skiing, horseback riding, skating, skateboarding, snowboarding or doing any activity that could result in head injury.
- Buckle your seat belt and make sure your kids are buckled in. Doing so anytime you drive or ride in a motor vehicle may prevent or minimize head damage in an accident.
- Protect young children. Always use properly fitted car seats, pad countertops and edges of tables, block stairways, tether heavy furniture or appliances to the wall to prevent tipping, and keep children from climbing on unsafe or unsteady objects.
References
- Traumatic brain injury: Hope through research. National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke. http://www.ninds.nih.gov/disorders/tbi/detail_tbi.htm. Accessed April 3, 2011.
- Traumatic brain injury. The Merck Manuals: The Merck Manual for Healthcare Professionals. http://www.merck.com/mmpe/sec21/ch310/ch310a.html#S21_CH310_T001. Accessed April 3, 2011.
- Smith ML, et al. Neurosurgery. In: Brunicardi FC, et al. Schwartz's Principles of Surgery. 9th ed. New York, N.Y.: The McGraw-Hill Companies; 2010. http://www.accessmedicine.com/content.aspx?aID=5020575. Accessed March 4, 2011.
- McBride W, et al. Intracranial epidural hematoma in adults. http://www.uptodate.com/index/home.html. Accessed March 22, 2011.
- Le TH, et al. Neuroimaging of traumatic brain injury. Mount Sinai Journal of Medicine. 2009;76:145.
- Moulton RJ, et al. Head injury and intracranial hypertension. In: Hall JB, et al. Principles of Critical Care. 3rd ed. New York, N.Y.: The McGraw-Hill Companies; 2005. http://www.accessmedicine.com/content.aspx?aID=2297849. Accessed April 5, 2011.
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