Yield and Clinical Predictors of Thoracic Spine Injury from Chest Computed Tomography for Blunt Trauma
Introduction: Cost and radiation risk have prompted intense examination of trauma patient imaging. A proposed decision instrument (DI) for the use of chest computed tomography (CT), (CCT) in blunt trauma patients includes thoracic spine (TS) tenderness, altered mental status (AMS) and distracting pa...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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eScholarship Publishing, University of California
2014-07-01
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Series: | Western Journal of Emergency Medicine |
Online Access: | http://escholarship.org/uc/item/08q5w191 |