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Complete-body computed tomography in trauma sufferers: optimization of the affected person scanning place considerably shortens examination time whereas sustaining diagnostic picture high quality.
Ther Clin Danger Manag. 2018;14:849-859
Authors: Hickethier T, Mammadov Ok, Baeßler B, Lichtenstein T, Hinkelbein J, Smith L, Plum PS, Chon SH, Maintz D, Chang DH
Summary
Background: The research was carried out to check examination time and artifact vulnerability of whole-body computed tomographies (wbCTs) for trauma sufferers utilizing typical or optimized affected person positioning.
Sufferers and strategies: Examination time was measured in 100 sufferers scanned with typical protocol (Group A: arms positioned alongside the physique for head and neck imaging and over the pinnacle for trunk imaging) and 100 sufferers scanned with optimized protocol (Group B: arms flexed on a chest pillow with out repositioning). Moreover, affect of two completely different scanning protocols on picture high quality in essentially the most related physique areas was assessed by two blinded readers.
Outcomes: Whole wbCT length was about 35% or three:46 min shorter in B than in A. Artifacts in aorta (27 vs 6%), liver (40 vs eight%) and spleen (27 vs 5%) occurred considerably extra typically in B than in A. No incident of non-diagnostic picture high quality was reported, and no important variations for lungs and backbone have been discovered.
Conclusion: An optimized wbCT positioning protocol for trauma sufferers permits a big discount of examination time whereas nonetheless sustaining diagnostic picture high quality.
PMID: 29765226 [PubMed]