Effect of Abdominal Ultrasound on Clinical Care, Outcomes, and Resource Use Among Children With Blunt Torso Trauma: A Randomized Clinical Trial.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

The utility of the focused assessment with sonography for trauma (FAST) examination in children is unknown.

Objective

To determine if the FAST examination during initial evaluation of injured children improves clinical care.

Design, setting, and participants

A randomized clinical trial (April 2012-May 2015) that involved 975 hemodynamically stable children and adolescents younger than 18 years treated for blunt torso trauma at the University of California, Davis Medical Center, a level I trauma center.

Interventions

Patients were randomly assigned to a standard trauma evaluation with the FAST examination by the treating ED physician or a standard trauma evaluation alone.

Main outcomes and measures

Coprimary outcomes were rate of abdominal comp

SUBMITTER: Holmes JF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5815005 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature