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Letter to the Editor
Why do children vomit after head injury?
  1. Patrick A Nee
  1. Accident and Emergency Department, Whiston Hospital, Prescot, Merseyside L35 5DR, UK

    https://doi.org/10.1136/emj.18.3.234-b

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      Editor,—Fiona Brown and colleagues1 studied outcomes in 463 children and found no increase in skull fracture in the presence of post-traumatic vomiting (PTV). They concluded that “vomiting alone does not have a role in decision making regarding further investigation of skull or brain”. These conclusions …

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