Research Part 2 
Jennifer Mundy
Grand Canyon
Nursing 433v
Research Critique part 2
The most common and effective scoring system that we currently use to describe a patients level of consciousness in someone who had a serious brain injury is the Glasgow Coma Scale. This scale is extremely effective in the medical field and has helped in many serious situations. However this scale does have some limitations when dealing with patients in the pediatrics department. There is a separate version in pediatrics and it has been changed to accommodate all of the different ages that nurses and doctors encounter. The researcher in this study wanted to see if there would be any correlation between a pediatric patients GSC score and later cerebral atrophy in the brain after a serious TBI.
Protection of Human Participants
Throughout this study no risks or benefits were addressed that could have come from participating from this study. The participants in this study were going through quantitative magnetic resonance imaging for four months after a traumatic brain injury I didn’t see any risk within this study. In terms of benefits I didn’t see it being beneficial for the patient that was currently going through this as to more beneficial for the future patient. The results they gain from this study will help a future patient TBI patient and be able to see if this patient will face a lifetime of cerebral atrophy. In this article there was no discussion about informed consent from the patients, as well as not mentioning if there was approval by an institutional review board. The information obtained about each patient was general such as their height, weight, age, gender, socioeconomic status, and mechanism of injury of the patients.
Data Collection
There was no specification about a time frame for the data collection. A group of 45 children with TBI admitted to children’s hospital were enrolled; who were a part of a larger study investigating the effects of TBI (Ghosh &
Grand Canyon
Nursing 433v
Research Critique part 2
The most common and effective scoring system that we currently use to describe a patients level of consciousness in someone who had a serious brain injury is the Glasgow Coma Scale. This scale is extremely effective in the medical field and has helped in many serious situations. However this scale does have some limitations when dealing with patients in the pediatrics department. There is a separate version in pediatrics and it has been changed to accommodate all of the different ages that nurses and doctors encounter. The researcher in this study wanted to see if there would be any correlation between a pediatric patients GSC score and later cerebral atrophy in the brain after a serious TBI.
Protection of Human Participants
Throughout this study no risks or benefits were addressed that could have come from participating from this study. The participants in this study were going through quantitative magnetic resonance imaging for four months after a traumatic brain injury I didn’t see any risk within this study. In terms of benefits I didn’t see it being beneficial for the patient that was currently going through this as to more beneficial for the future patient. The results they gain from this study will help a future patient TBI patient and be able to see if this patient will face a lifetime of cerebral atrophy. In this article there was no discussion about informed consent from the patients, as well as not mentioning if there was approval by an institutional review board. The information obtained about each patient was general such as their height, weight, age, gender, socioeconomic status, and mechanism of injury of the patients.
Data Collection
There was no specification about a time frame for the data collection. A group of 45 children with TBI admitted to children’s hospital were enrolled; who were a part of a larger study investigating the effects of TBI (Ghosh &