https://www.slideshare.net/SeanFox44/neuroimaging-mastery-project-presentation-4-acute-epidural-hematomas

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• Aetiology
  • 🍒Classically it is taught that epidural haematomas result from blunt force trauma to the temporal region along the distribution of the middle meningeal artery
  • 🍒Epidural haematomas are more likely to be caused by injuries to venous structures in children
• Prognostic factors
  • 🍒What clinical findings are associated with a worse prognosis for epidural haematomas?
• Imaging
  • 🍒Fresh blood has lower attenuation than clotted blood in a CT of a haematoma
• Management
  • 🍒An epidural haematoma ≥30cm$^3$ should be surgically evacuated regardless of GCS score