{"id":6262,"date":"2018-09-04T11:00:27","date_gmt":"2018-09-04T15:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=6262"},"modified":"2018-10-08T13:27:09","modified_gmt":"2018-10-08T17:27:09","slug":"new-guidelines-for-treatment-of-mild-concussion-in-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/new-guidelines-for-treatment-of-mild-concussion-in-kids\/","title":{"rendered":"New guidelines for treatment of mild concussion in kids <img src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/canada_flag_icon_small.gif\">"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/\u00a0https:\/\/jama.jamanetwork.com\/article.aspx?doi=10.1001\/jamapediatrics.2018.2853&amp;utm_campaign=articlePDF%26utm_medium=articlePDFlink%26utm_source=articlePDF%26utm_content=jamapediatrics.2018.2847\" target=\"_blank\"><em>JAMA Pediatrics<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Published\u00a0September 4, 2018<\/strong>\u00a0(<a href=\"https:\/\/media.jamanetwork.com\/news-item\/cdc-guideline-on-diagnosis-management-of-mild-traumatic-brain-injury-in-children\/\" target=\"_blank\">News release<\/a> from <em>JAMA Pediatrics<\/em>)<br \/>\nNew concussion guidelines include 19 sets of recommendations on the diagnosis, prognosis, and management\/treatment of pediatric mild concussion\u00a0assigned a level of treatment based on confidence in\u00a0evidence. Recommendations address imaging, symptom scales, cognitive testing, and standardized assessment for diagnosis; history and risk factor assessment, monitoring, and counseling for prognosis; and patient\/family education, rest, support, return to school, and symptom management for treatment. Concise and actionable guideline-implementation materials are also provided.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/media.jamanetwork.com\/wp-content\/handlers\/downloader.php?a=45784\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Related editorial<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Canadian co-author: <\/strong>Keith Owen Yeates, University of Calgary &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:kyeates@ucalgary.ca\" target=\"_blank\">kyeates@ucalgary.ca<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JAMA Pediatrics Published\u00a0September 4, 2018\u00a0(News release from JAMA Pediatrics) New concussion guidelines include 19 sets of recommendations on the diagnosis, prognosis, and management\/treatment of pediatric mild concussion\u00a0assigned a level of treatment based on confidence in\u00a0evidence. Recommendations address imaging, symptom scales, cognitive testing, and standardized assessment for diagnosis; history and risk factor assessment, monitoring, and counseling [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5338,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-paper-of-interest"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/soccer-heading.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-1D0","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6262"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6321,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6262\/revisions\/6321"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}