Blunt Cerebrovascular Injury: Are We Overscreening Low-Mechanism Trauma?

Kevin D Hiatt Raghav Agarwal Chesney S OravecErica C JohnsonNishk P Patel Carol P Geer Stacey Quintero Wolfe Michael E Zapadka

Published in: AJNR. American journal of neuroradiology (2023)

We advocate reservation of blunt cerebrovascular injury screening in low-mechanism trauma for patients meeting the expanded Denver criteria. Further research is needed to determine the behavior of indeterminate cases and to establish criteria for separating true-positive from false-positive findings.

Keyphrases

trauma patients
end stage renal disease
ejection fraction
newly diagnosed
chronic kidney disease
prognostic factors
peritoneal dialysis
patient reported outcomes