Blunt Traumatic Aortic Injury in the Pan-scan Era.
Louis YuBrigitte M BaumannAli S RajaWilliam R MowerMark I LangdorfAnthony J MedakDeirdre R AnglinGregory W HendeyDaniel NishijimaRobert M RodriguezPublished in: Academic emergency medicine : official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine (2019)
Aortic injury is rare in adult ED blunt trauma patients who survive to receive imaging. Most ED aortic injury patients have associated thoracic injuries and survive to hospital discharge. Widened mediastinum on CXR and high-energy mechanism have relatively low screening sensitivity for aortic injury, but the NEXUS Chest DI detected all cases.
Keyphrases
- trauma patients
- aortic valve
- emergency department
- pulmonary artery
- left ventricular
- end stage renal disease
- aortic dissection
- newly diagnosed
- spinal cord injury
- computed tomography
- ejection fraction
- chronic kidney disease
- spinal cord
- peritoneal dialysis
- prognostic factors
- coronary artery
- magnetic resonance
- pulmonary arterial hypertension
- mass spectrometry