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European Society of Emergency Radiology: guideline on radiological polytrauma imaging and service (short version) by Stefan Wirth; Julian Hebebrand; Raffaella Basilico; Ferco H. Berger; Ana Blanco; Cem Calli; Maureen Dumba; Ulrich Linsenmaier; Fabian Mück; Konraad H. Nieboer; Mariano Scaglione; Marc-André Weber; Elizabeth Dick is a Medicine article available to read on EtoBox.
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## Abstract ## Background Although some national recommendations for the role of radiology in a polytrauma service exist, there are no European guidelines to date. Additionally, for many interdisciplinary guidelines, radiology tends to be under-represented. These factors motivated the European Society of Emergency Radiology (ESER) to develop radiologically-centred polytrauma guidelines. ## Results Evidence-based decisions were made on 68 individual aspects of polytrauma imaging at two ESER consensus conferences. For severely injured patients, whole-body CT (WBCT) has been shown to significantly reduce mortality when compared to targeted, selective CT. However, this advantage must be balanced against the radiation risk of performing more WBCTs, especially in less severely injured patients. For this reason, we recommend a second lower dose WBCT protocol as an alternative in certain clinical scenarios. The ESER Guideline on Radiological Polytrauma Imaging and Service is published in two versions: a full version (download from the ESER homepage, https://www.eser-society.org) and a short version also covering all recommendations (this article). ## Conclusions Once a patient has been acc
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- Author
- Stefan Wirth; Julian Hebebrand; Raffaella Basilico; Ferco H. Berger; Ana Blanco; Cem Calli; Maureen Dumba; Ulrich Linsenmaier; Fabian Mück; Konraad H. Nieboer; Mariano Scaglione; Marc-André Weber; Elizabeth Dick
- Publisher
- Springer Science and Business Media LLC
- Published
- 2020
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Medicine (Health Sciences)