Plain Radiography May Be Safely Omitted for Selected Major Trauma Patients Undergoing Whole Body CT: Database Study

Introduction. Whole body CT is being used increasingly in the primary survey of major trauma patients. We evaluated whether omitting plain films of the chest and pelvis in the primary survey was safe. We compared the probability of survival of patients and time to CT who had plain X-rays to those wh...

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Autores principales: Hudson, Sarah, Boyle, Adrian, Wiltshire, Stephanie, McGerty, Lisa, Upponi, Sara
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2012
Materias:
Clinical Study
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3403351/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22844598
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/432537

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3403351/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22844598
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/432537

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