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Appendicitis & CT

Douglas Geehan trauma-list@trauma.org
Mon, 14 Apr 2003 09:53:30 -0500 

>  To say the use of all CTs in acute AP is wrong is an overstatement.
> Ron Simon
> Dir of Trauma
> Jacobi Medical Center


I would agree with this statement; howver, we have been discussing the 
use of CT for appendicitis (kind of neat since we're on the trauma-L; I 
guess that answers the question about segregated trauma/ gen surgery 
call...) specifically.  My personal view is that you request a CT when 
you think the patient does not have appendicitis.  As I tell my 
residents, "If you are confident enough to put appendicitis as the 
reason for the CT on the requisition form, the patient just needs an 
operation".

Doug

-- 
Douglas Geehan, M.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Surgery
University of Missouri-Kansas City
geehand@umkc.edu