Conducta de salud en niño con traumatismo craneoencefálico

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Introduction: The traumatic brain injury (TBI) is defi ned as any organic or functional lesion of cranial contents by a foreign entity is considered a common condition in industrialized countries and is one of the leading causes of death in children and young adults, causes injuries trauma requiring emergency care, corresponding to 25% of hospital admissions, 82% of them are mild, 13% moderate and 5% fatal and 20% develop signifi cant disabilities. The clinical status of children with TBI demand professional nursing care to ensure a timely and quality care to reduce the risk of developing neurological sequelae, which is why the professional nurse should opt for care from a holistic and humanized by a systematic method that enables nurses to provide care in a rational, logical and systematic. This paper contains the results of the nursing process conducted in a child www.medigraphic.org.mx