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Article: Canadian Study Suggests Guidelines For Use Of CT Scans For Minor Head Injury.(computed tomography )(Brief Article)
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- Medical Devices & Surgical Technology Week
- Article date:
- June 10, 2001
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2001 JUN 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) --
A sensitive decision rule for computed tomography (CT) scans described in the May 5, 2001, issue of the Lancet could standardize and improve the emergency management of patients with minor head injury.
An estimated one million patients with head injury are seen yearly in North American emergency departments and most are classified as minimal or minor. Patients with minimal head injuries did not have loss of consciousness or amnesia and rarely require admission to hospital. However, there is much controversy about the use of CT scans for patients with minor head injury.
Ian Stiell and colleagues from The ...