To date, the Pediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network (PECARN) rule for identifying children who are at very low risk of clinically-important traumatic brain injuries after minor head trauma

What is the PECARN study?

The PECARN is a well-validated clinical decision aid that allows physicians to safely rule out the presence of clinically important traumatic brain injuries among pediatric head injury patients without the need for CT imaging, including those that would require neurosurgical intervention.

What is a Pecarn score?

Using the PECARN Pediatric Head Injury/Trauma Algorithm The Glasgow Coma Scale is based on a 15 point scale for estimating and categorizing the out- comes of brain injury on the basis of overall social capability or dependence on others. The minimum score is 3 points which designates a deep coma or brain death.