Is hospital admission and observation required after a normal abdominal computed tomography scan in children with blunt abdominal trauma?

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 15, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 895-899

  Awasthi, Smita ^a   Mao, Amy ^a   Wooton Gorges, Sandra L ^a   Wisner, David H ^a   Kuppermann, Nathan ^a   Holmes, James F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Abdominal CT; Abdominal trauma; Pediatrics

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL BLUNT TRAUMA; ABDOMINAL SCINTISCANNING; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY PHYSICIAN; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEMATOMA; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LAPAROTOMY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MESENTERY; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PATIENT MONITORING; PERITONEAL FLUID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCHOOL CHILD; SEROSA;

ABDOMINAL INJURIES; CHILD; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; OBSERVATION; PATIENT ADMISSION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; WOUNDS, NONPENETRATING;

EID: 56849102480     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1553-2712.2008.00226.x     Document Type: Article

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