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Rapid assessment of mental status in the infant and young child
1Department of Pediatrics, New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center, New York.
Emergency Medicine Clinics of North America
|November 1, 1987
Abstract:
This article reviews some of the tests for determining mental status in the infant and child. This assessment, in the setting of acute insult, is considerably more difficult than it is in the adult, since language skills and performance expectations differ in this age group.