
The Role of Trauma CT in Sus- pected Intra - Abdominal Injury - A Case Report
Author(s) -
Emma Mullen
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
hsoa journal of surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2578-7284
DOI - 10.24966/scti-7284/100020
Subject(s) - medicine , computed tomography , severe trauma , radiology , surgery
Despite Computerised Tomography (CT) becoming the standard primary investigation when managing severe trauma, most clinical guidelines do not recommend it in haemodynamically unstable patients. The inherent time delay and clinical setting associated with the investigation has warranted it the nickname of “tunnel of death”.