New Response to Kid Concussions

WASHINGTON — Head injuries are one of the most common reasons kids go to emergency rooms where doctors might order CT scans to check for concussions, and now local doctors have developed a diagnostic tool to reduce the frequency of ordering those tests due to cancer concerns.

“We know that when you get a CT scan sometime in the first 22 years of life … there is a 300 percent increase in overall lifetime cancer,” said Children’s National Health System’s Chief Information Officer and Chief Medical Information Officer Dr. Brian Jacobs. “So that’s our No. 1 concern here and our No. 1 driver of this work is reducing radiation and the associated unnecessary exposure and the risk of malignancy.”

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