Retrospective descriptive observational study of patients who presented to an Australian hospital emergency department with neck soft tissue injury.
Catherine Jane NiklesSubaat KhanJohn LeouGerben KeijzersJoanna NgCatherine BondGota NakamuraRhonda LeMichele SterlingPublished in: Emergency medicine Australasia : EMA (2019)
There is large practice variation in management of neck soft tissue injury in ED. Over half of the patients received CT scans with modest yield. Opioids were commonly used both in ED and on discharge. There is need for a standard management plan to be developed for patients presenting with acute neck soft tissue injury.
Keyphrases
- soft tissue
- emergency department
- computed tomography
- healthcare
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- ejection fraction
- cross sectional
- newly diagnosed
- primary care
- liver failure
- contrast enhanced
- chronic pain
- prognostic factors
- magnetic resonance imaging
- pain management
- dual energy
- magnetic resonance
- drug induced
- image quality
- quality improvement
- acute respiratory distress syndrome