Prospective Evaluation of Early Follow-up Chest Radiography after Penetrating Thoracic Injury
2013
Background
In asymptomatic patients with penetrating thoracic trauma and a normal initial chest x-ray, successive prospective trials have decreased the minimum observation period required for exclusion of significant injury from 6 to 3 h. Despite the quality of these studies, this interval remains arbitrary and the true requisite observation time for safe discharge remains unknown. The current study evaluates the ability of “early” repeat chest x-ray, at intervals approaching 1 h, to exclude clinically significant injury.
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