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Abstracts for Considerations in the Management of Trauma, Free Paper Session 1
Abstracts for Considerations in the Management of Trauma, Free Paper Session 1, Wednesday 16 September 14.30–15.15, Great Hall
Role of interventional radiology in multitrauma patients: a retrospective cross-sectional study
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Aims
To establish the number of multitrauma patients who would benefit from a vascular interventional radiologist being on the trauma team at University Hospital Coventry and Warwickshire, a level 1 trauma centre.
Methods
All “multitrauma CTs” (CT scan of the head, C-spine, thorax, abdomen and pelvis) requested through the emergency department over a 1-year period were evaluated to identify patients who …