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Table 3 CT examinations in patients admitted with TTA

From: Clinical guided computer tomography decisions are advocated in potentially severely injured trauma patients: a one-year audit in a level 1 trauma Centre with long pre-hospital times

 

< 5 years

n, (%)

5–16 years

n, (%)

> 16 years

n, (%)

Total, n (%)

Trauma admission CT examination strategy groups

Standardized whole body CT

1 (11.1)

6 (35.3)

66 (55.9)

73 (50.7)

 Duplicated CT a during subsequent hospital stay

 0 (0.0)

 2 (33.3)

 34 (51.5)

 36 (49.3)

Selective CT

0 (0.0)

7 (41.2)

36 (30.5)

43 (29.9)

 Duplicated CT a during subsequent hospital stay

 0 (0.0)

 1 (14.3)

 8 (22.2)

 9 (20.9)

 Complement CT b during subsequent hospital stay

 0 (0.0)

 0 (0.0)

 2 (5.6)

 2 (4.6)

No CT

8 (88.9)

4 (23.5)

16 (13.6)

28 (19.4)

 Complement CT b during subsequent hospital stay

 1 (12.5)

 1 (25.0)

 4 (25.0)

 6 (21.4)

Total, n (%)

9 (100)

17 (100)

118 (100)

144 (100)

  1. CT Computer Tomography, TTA trauma team activation, a CT of a body part examined during trauma admission and at least once during the subsequent hospital stay, b CT of a body part not examined during trauma admission but during the subsequent hospital stay