SGEM #479: Light Em Up Up Up (CT) or Not for Pediatric Blunt Abdominal Trauma?

Essais extraits du podcast de Dr. Ken Milne

• 2025PECARNEmergency & ResuscitationIn 2986 children with blunt torso trauma, one positive PECARN variable carried 1.3% risk of intra-abdominal injury needing intervention versus 2.0% with two variables
• 2015PECARN IAIEmergency & ResuscitationIn11,919 children with blunt torso trauma,the PECARN prediction ruledetectedintra-abdominal injury needing acute interventionmore sensitively thanclinician suspicion