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Abdominal Trauma
Emergency ultrasound cannot rule out intra-abdominal injury from blunt trauma
March 22nd, 2004
In a large review of published studies, researchers find that emergency ultrasonography is not sufficiently sensitive to accurately rule out intra-abdominal injury caused by blunt trauma. According to published research from Germany, "Emergency ultrasound has established itself as a key procedure of primary diagnostic work-up for blunt abdominal and multiple trauma. However, in a systematic review published in 2001, ultrasonography turned out to provide an unexpectedly low sensitivity. We conducted an update of this analysis to investigate if test characteristics will be maintained including recent studies." Prospective trials published between...
Source: Health & Medicine Week (2004-03-22)
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