The limitations of using risk factors to screen for blunt cerebrovascular injuries: the harder you look, the more you find

Conclusions: Our findings demonstrate that reliance on clinical or radiologic risk factors alone as indications for screening for BCVI is inadequate. We recommend routine CTA screening for BCVI in all patients who have sustained a mechanism of injury sufficient to warrant either a CT of the cervical spine or a CTA of the chest.
Source: World Journal of Emergency Surgery - Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Source Type: research