Yield of serious axial injury from pan scans after blunt trauma in haemodynamically stable low-risk trauma patients.
Jessica RobertsSara WattsSharon KlimPeter RitchieAnne-Maree KellyPublished in: Emergency medicine Australasia : EMA (2018)
The rate of serious axial/truncal injury was low. The high rate of normal scans makes it likely that the risk:benefit ratio between injury identification and radiation related cancer risk is unacceptably high. This data supports a selective CT strategy in low-risk trauma patients.