title: Towards evidence-based emergency medicine: best BETs from the Manchester Royal Infirmary. BET: Is CT thorax necessary to exclude significant injury in paediatric patients with blunt chest trauma?
abstract: A shortcut review was carried out to establish if CXR had sufficient sensitivity to rule out significant thoracic injury in haemodynamically stable, paediatric patients with a significant mechanism of trauma. No studies were found that directly answered the three-part question, but 13 studies were found which were considered relevant. The author, date and country of publication, patient group studied, study type, relevant outcomes, results and study weaknesses of these papers are tabulated. The clinical bottom line is that important thoracic injuries may not be clinically apparent and that CT scans have a significantly higher sensitivity than CXR in detecting such injuries.
authors.affiliation: Central Manchester Foundation Trust, Manchester, UK.
authors.forename: Katherine
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: de la Morandiere
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D055416:Evidence-Based Emergency Medicine; D006801:Humans; D013898:Thoracic Injuries / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed