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Across the globe - whenever you don't have access to other imaging
equipment or if 'out-of-hours' or whenever local policy or clinical
judgement dictates it's sufficient or 'gateway' requirement to access
other imaging.

Paul Harrison
Clinical Development Officer
Princess Royal Spinal Injuries Centre
Sheffield

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-----Original Message-----
From: trauma-list-bounces at trauma.org
[mailto:trauma-list-bounces at trauma.org] On Behalf Of Sanjay Gupta MD
Sent: 04 February 2008 22:26
To: Trauma &amp, Critical Care mailing list
Subject: Re: Use of plain abdominal X-rays in trauma

For that matter, how many people do C-spine X-rays in
trauma.

Sanjay

--- jason smith <jasonesmith at hotmail.com> wrote:

> 
> I was surprised to read that a recent publication
> from the Royal College of Radiologists (Making the
> best use of clinical radiology services, 6th
> edition) has advocated the use of plain abdominal
> X-rays in both blunt and penetrating abdominal
> trauma. However, I'm not aware of anywhere that
> still does plain X-rays for abdo trauma. 
> Does anyone know of any evidence for or against? Any
> views? Have I missed something?
> Thanks,
> Jason Smith
>  
>
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