Refining the criteria for immediate total-body CT after severe trauma

Kaij Treskes,T. P. Saltzherr,Michael J. Edwards,Benn J. A. Beuker,Esther M.M. Van Lieshout,Joachim Hohmann,Jan S. K. Luitse,Ludo F. M. Beenen,Markus W. Hollmann,Marcel G. W. Dijkgraaf,J. Carel Goslings

Refining the criteria for immediate total-body CT after severe trauma

2020

Kaij Treskes
T. P. Saltzherr
Michael J. Edwards
Benn J. A. Beuker
Esther M.M. Van Lieshout
Joachim Hohmann
Jan S. K. Luitse
Ludo F. M. Beenen
Markus W. Hollmann
Marcel G. W. Dijkgraaf
J. Carel Goslings

Objectives Initial trauma care could potentially be improved when conventional imaging and selective CT scanning is omitted and replaced by immediate total-body CT (iTBCT) scanning. Because of the potentially increased radiation exposure by this diagnostic approach, proper selection of the severely injured patients is mandatory.

Keywords:

Whole body imaging
Radiology
Radiation exposure
severe trauma
Medical imaging
multidetector computed tomography
Medicine
trauma care
Interventional radiology
severe injury
Logistic regression
Receiver operating characteristic
Neuroradiology
total body

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