ICU patients with infectious complications after abdominopelvic surgery: Is thoracic CT in addition to abdominal CT helpful?
Heiner NebelungNatalie WotschelHanns-Christoph HeldJohanna KirchbergJürgen WeitzChristoph Georg RadosaMichael LaniadoRalf-Thorsten HoffmannVerena PlodeckPublished in: Annals of intensive care (2023)
Additional thoracic CT to detect an infectious focus in ICU patients after abdominopelvic surgery leads to identification of the focus in only 3.5% and to changes in patient management in only 0.7%. Other relevant findings are more common (16.1%), but very rarely affect patient management.
Keyphrases
- image quality
- dual energy
- minimally invasive
- computed tomography
- contrast enhanced
- coronary artery bypass
- intensive care unit
- end stage renal disease
- case report
- spinal cord
- ejection fraction
- positron emission tomography
- newly diagnosed
- mechanical ventilation
- prognostic factors
- surgical site infection
- magnetic resonance
- peritoneal dialysis
- percutaneous coronary intervention
- spinal cord injury
- patient reported outcomes
- atrial fibrillation
- acute respiratory distress syndrome
- pet ct