Maintaining immobilisation devices on trauma patients during CT: a feasibility study.

Pål Johan StokkelandErlend AndersenMaria Myhre BjørndalArne Morten MikalsenSindre AslaksenPer Kristian Hyldmo

Published in: Scandinavian journal of trauma, resuscitation and emergency medicine (2017)

Our results indicate that it is feasible to maintain some vacuum mattresses with plastic valves on trauma patients during CT scanning. The tested mattresses did not result in a considerably increased radiation dose or artefacts that hampered clinical judgement. One of the tested vacuum mattresses produced no artefacts that hampered clinical judgement whatsoever.

Keyphrases

trauma patients
computed tomography
image quality
dual energy
contrast enhanced
positron emission tomography
magnetic resonance imaging
high resolution
aortic valve replacement
mass spectrometry
heart failure
coronary artery disease
transcatheter aortic valve implantation