Journal article
Predicting Thoracic Injury in Children With Multitrauma.
Abstract
OBJECTIVES: Previous pediatric trauma studies focused on predictors of abnormal chest radiographs or included patients with low injury severity. This study identified predictors of thoracic injury (TI) diagnoses in a high-risk population and determined TI rate without predictors.
METHODS: This study was a retrospective trauma registry analysis of previously healthy children aged 0 to 17 years with multisystem blunt trauma requiring trauma team …
Authors
Weerdenburg KD; Wales PW; Stephens D; Beno S; Gantz J; Alsop J; Schuh S
Journal
Pediatric Emergency Care, Vol. Publish Ahead of Print, No. 5,
Publisher
Wolters Kluwer
Publication Date
May 2019
DOI
10.1097/pec.0000000000001129
ISSN
0749-5161