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Case from last night-What to do

trauma-list@trauma.org trauma-list@trauma.org
Mon, 10 Mar 2003 07:40:48 -0500 

In a message dated 3/9/2003 5:09:29 PM Eastern Standard Time, hey@dadlnet.dk writes:

> consideret them of
> low specificity and sensitivity, - especially for diagnosis of a direct chest trauma, which in this case is complicated.
> No I do not think we are trying to imagine too many lesions which are not there. I think we just do not want to
> overlook something, and give the surgeon poor information. We just want the facts, all of them, or as much as we can gather,  in the most reliable way possible, in the shortest 
> possible time.
> (Please excuse my english) Best regards.
> Mike H MD

I have no problem with the use of chest CT in this case--it is certainly a valid option--just saying that I would not have done one with the info given, unless something changes
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