Understanding Chest CT Scan Usage Among Adolescent Blunt Trauma Patients at Adult Trauma Centers.

Purpose: The utility of chest computed tomography (CCT) is not well established in the diagnostic algorithm of adolescent blunt trauma patients. Our study's aim was to review CCT usage in the initial evaluation of adolescent blunt trauma.

Methods: We retrospectively reviewed adolescent blunt trauma patients treated at our urban level 1 adult trauma center from 2015 to 2019.

Understanding Head CT Scan Usage Amongst Adolescent Blunt Trauma Patients Treated at a Level 1 Adult Trauma Center.

Background: Guidelines developed by the Pediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network (PECARN) exist to reserve the use of head CT for pediatric patients with a high risk of head injury. However, CTs are still being overutilized especially at adult trauma centers. The aim of our study was to review our use of head CTs in adolescent blunt trauma patients.

Decreased readmission rates following use of modified trauma-specific frailty index in older trauma patients: A follow-up study.

Introduction: Post-discharge readmission rates using modified Trauma-Specific Frailty Index (mTSFI) compared to the Emergency Severity Index (ESI) are unknown. In our pilot study, we demonstrated that mTSFI usage more accurately triages older trauma patients. In the current study, we hypothesized that adult trauma patients triaged using mTSFI would have lower readmission rates at the 30-day interval post discharge.