Immediate total-body CT scanning versus conventional imaging and selective CT scanning in patients with severe trauma (REACT-2): a randomised controlled trial

The Lancet

Volumn 388, Issue 10045, 2016, Pages 673-683

  Sierink, Joanne C ^a   Treskes, Kaij ^a   Edwards, Michael J R ^b   Beuker, Benn J A ^c   den Hartog, Dennis ^d   Hohmann, Joachim ^e   Dijkgraaf, Marcel G W ^a   Luitse, Jan S K ^a   Beenen, Ludo F M ^a   Hollmann, Markus W ^a   Goslings, J Carel ^a  

^a ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^d ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^e UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM; HEMOGLOBIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; BLUNT TRAUMA; CLINICAL OUTCOME; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSSOVER PROCEDURE; FEMALE; HEMATOCRIT; HEMOGLOBIN DETERMINATION; HOSPITAL COST; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INJURY; INJURY SCALE; INJURY SEVERITY; INTENTION TO TREAT ANALYSIS; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; NETHERLANDS; POST HOC ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SWITZERLAND; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; WHOLE BODY CT; BRAIN INJURY; CLINICAL TRIAL; DEVICES; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; EPIDEMIOLOGY; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; TIME FACTOR; WHOLE BODY IMAGING; X-RAY COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY;

ADULT; BRAIN INJURIES; FEMALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; NETHERLANDS; RADIATION DOSAGE; SWITZERLAND; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; WHOLE BODY IMAGING;

EID: 84977671094     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: 1474547X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(16)30932-1     Document Type: Article

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