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Wed Oct 14 20:41:37 BST 2009

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-cedars-sinai14-2009oct14,0,5065886.story?track=rss

You may want to check that your Evening News Channels were not broadcasting from an alternate universe.  And then carefully and thoroughly retract this Glennbeckian extrapolation before it breeds pointless alarmism and potential harm.

Sorry, Dr. Mattox; you usually earn my faith and trust.  But this is bordering on wacky.

Pret Bjorn, RN
Bangor, ME USA

---------- Original Message ----------
From: KMATTOX at aol.com
To: trauma-list at trauma.org
Subject: CT Excessive Radiation - Cedar Sinai Hospital
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2009 18:54:01 EDT

Big News on the Evening News Channels today (Tuesday) is huge overdoses  
from CT scanners used in a diagnostic mode at the Los Angeles Cedar Sinai  
Hospital.   It was in stroke patients, but the regulatory agencies are  going 
to be looking at the dosing of radiation from CT scanners all over the  
country, including trauma.     They will also be looking at  specific 
indications.    A word to the wise is in  order.    

For any patient in whom you order a CT scan, be sure there is a progress  
note stipulating the  specific indication for the CT scan, what you  
anticipate finding, and how any finding (positive or negative) will affect your  
treatment and the outcome of your patient.     

If you cannot write such a note, CANCEL your order for a CT  scan.    By 
some projections, more than 80% of CT scans are  ordered unnecessarily and 
that up to 30% of CT scans have led to VOMITs or have  dubious and less than 
helpful reports, that have language to over protect the  person dictating the 
report.    

BEWARE.  

k

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