Is routine portable pelvic X-ray in stable multiple trauma patients always justified in a high technology era?

Injury

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 559-563

  Kessel, Boris ^a   Sevi, Roger ^a   Jeroukhimov, Igor ^b   Kalganov, Alex ^a   Khashan, Tawfik ^a   Ashkenazi, Itamar ^a   Bartal, Gabriel ^a   Halevi, Ariel ^b   Alfici, Ricardo ^a  

^a HILLEL YAFFE MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b ASSAF HAROFEH MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

Abdominal CT angiography; ATLS; Blunt abdominal trauma; Multiple trauma; Portable pelvis; Radiography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE REGISTRY; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HEALTH CENTER; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; INJURY SCALE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PELVIS ANGIOGRAPHY; PELVIS FRACTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIODIAGNOSIS; RADIOLOGIST; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SURGEON; X RAY;

ADULT; FEMALE; FRACTURES, BONE; HUMANS; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; PELVIC BONES; POINT-OF-CARE SYSTEMS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TRAUMA CENTERS; UNNECESSARY PROCEDURES; WOUNDS, NONPENETRATING;

EID: 34247613167     PISSN: 00201383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.injury.2006.12.020     Document Type: Article

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