1. Is it adequate to carry out a chest-CT in patients with mild-moderate chest trauma?
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García de Pereda de Blas V, Carreras Aja M, Carbajo Azabal S, and Arana-Arri E
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- Humans, Injury Severity Score, Practice Guidelines as Topic, Thoracic Injuries diagnostic imaging, Tomography, X-Ray Computed standards
- Abstract
Mild-moderate blunt chest trauma is defined as a blunt chest trauma that is not caused by a high-energy mechanism, causing thoracic tenderness with or without rib fractures and that has no immediate life-threatening consequences for the patient. It is a frequent clinical situation in the emergency department. The most common radiological techniques that are used in this context are chest X-ray and thoracic computed tomography (CT). The CT scan is set as the gold standard. However, there are no current clinical-radiological guidelines that establish the adequacy of the requests of the CT scan. Therefore, we decided to search for evidence-based recommendations to improve the adequacy of the chest X-ray and CT scan in our daily practice in order to reduce the costs and avoid unnecessary radiation exposure., (Copyright © 2017 SERAM. Publicado por Elsevier España, S.L.U. All rights reserved.)
- Published
- 2018
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