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CT Change Management in Trauma Patients

NCT05138536 · Status: COMPLETED · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 510

Last updated 2024-11-20

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Summary

In high-volume trauma centers, multi-slice CT scanners have become the routine imaging modality for screening trauma patients due to their speed and accuracy. In trauma patients with no known neurologic deficits, diagnostic CT is often obtained though it remains unclear whether this affects management of the patient \[1\]. With the growing cost of health care, a careful look at the benefit and cost of CT is needed to determine how to best utilize this modality in the evaluation of trauma patients.

HYPOTHESIS: In trauma patients with absence of neurologic defects, the addition of comprehensive CT does not change overall clinical management.

Conditions

Interventions

PROCEDURE

Pan-Computer Tomography

trauma centers use the pan-computed tomography (CT) scan (head, neck, chest, and abdomen/pelvis) for the evaluation of blunt trauma.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Methodist Health System

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Joseph Amos, MD · Methodist Health System

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2020-03-06
Primary Completion
2020-03-06
Completion
2020-03-06

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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