Errors in the emergency assessment of pediatric head trauma during the coronavirus pandemic: a report of two cases

The coronavirus pandemic has posed a challenge to health-care workers, who are at high risk for exposure to the disease. However, they also face the risk of infection due to the presence of asymptomatic carriers. The aim of this study was to demonstrate the necessity of a standard radiography protocol for fracture surveillance and good history taking and physical and neurological examinations, especially in pediatric patients with minor head injuries and negative routine non-contrast computed tomography results. We think that abandoning radiography in minor head-injury assessments is not right at the moment. Head injuries can be safely managed using a combination of skull radiography and three-dimensional reconstruction and thin-slice bone-imaging window computed tomography.