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Fri Sep 7 04:48:44 BST 2007

I do not disagree that CT of the chest can be a screening test for aortic injury.  For me it does not add any screening value over plain chest x ray.  The realproblem w chest CT is when someone tries to use it in aortic injury DIAGNOSIS.  
K
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-----Original Message-----
From: Ben Reynolds <aneurysm_42 at yahoo.com>

Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2007 20:35:16 
To:"Trauma &amp, Critical Care mailing list" <trauma-list at trauma.org>
Subject: Re: ECHO in peric.tamponade, ao dissection, volume status

Ken:

Right along side CT of the chest for the screening of
blunt aortic injury?

Ben Reynolds, PA-C
Pittsburgh, PA

--- KMATTOX at aol.com wrote:

>  
> In a message dated 9/6/2007 8:52:15 P.M. Central
> Daylight Time, ih7 at msn.com  
> writes:
> 
> perfusion by showing you the volume load of the 
> heart.
> 
> 
> 
> Interesting.   I try to read many journals.   I have
>  watched many TEEs,  I 
> have never appreciated that I can tell perfusion
> from  the TEE,  Can it also 
> demonstrate oxygen extraction, oxygen consumption, 
> and cytokine storm??"
>  
> I am going to have to go read some more on this
> wonderful  device.      I had 
> already religated it to the same  hall as the MAST
> pants in the curiosity 
> section of the medical museum
>  
> k
> 
> 
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