Emergency Bleeding Control Interventions After Immediate Total-Body CT Scans in Trauma Patients.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Immediate total-body CT (iTBCT) is often used for screening of potential severely injured patients. Patients requiring emergency bleeding control interventions benefit from fast and optimal trauma screening. The aim of this study was to assess whether an initial trauma assessment with iTBCT is associated with lower mortality in patients requiring emergency bleeding control interventions.

Methods

In the REACT-2 trial, patients who sustained major trauma were randomized for iTBCT or for conventional imaging and selective CT scanning (standard workup; STWU) in five trauma centers. Patients who underwent emergency bleeding control interventions following their initial trauma assessment with iTBCT were compared for mortality and clinically relevant time intervals to pa

SUBMITTER: Treskes K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6329725 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature