Clinical Study
Plain Radiography May Be Safely Omitted for Selected Major Trauma Patients Undergoing Whole Body CT: Database Study
Table 1
Demographic data of patient groups: whole-body CT with plain radiographs and whole-body CT without plain radiographs.
| | No plain films (%) | Plain films (%) | Chi-squared test ( value) |
| | Sex | | | | | Female | 13 (29.5) | 53 (26.4) | 0.17 (1 df ) | | Male | 31 (70.4) | 147 (73.4) | | Age | | | | | 16–24 | 5 (11.4) | 49 (24.4) | 8.16 (5 df ) | | 25–34 | 4 (9.1) | 37 (18.40 | | 35–44 | 10 (22.7) | 34 (16.9) | | 45–54 | 9 (20.5) | 24 (11.9) | | 55–64 | 9 (20.5) | 28 (13.9) | | 65 + plus | 7 (15.9) | 29 (14.4) | | Mechanism of injury | | | | | Blow(s) | 0 (0) | 4 (1.9) | | | Crush | 1 (2) | 2 (1.0) | | Fall less than 2 m | 0 (0) | 13 (6.5) | | Fall more than 2 m | 13 (29.5) | 29 (14.4) | | Other | 0 (0) | 1 (0.5) | | Stabbing | 0 (0) | 1 (0.5) | | Road traffic collision | 30 (68.2) | 151 (75.1) | | Trapped at scene | | | | | No | 27 (61.3) | 137 (68.1) | 0.84 (1 df ) | | Yes | 17 (38.6) | 63 (31.3) | | Initial GCS | | | | | 3–8 | 11 (25) | 62 (30.8) | 0.63 (2 df 0.63 ) | | 9–12 | 5 (11.4) | 22 (10.9) | | 13–15 | 38 (86.3) | 117 (58.2) | | Outcome | | | | | Alive | 42 (95.5) | 182 (90.5) | | | Dead | 2 (4.5) | 19 (9.5) | | Probability of survival (%) | | | | | 0–20 | 0.0 (0.0) | 6 (3.0) | | | 20–40 | 4 (9.1) | 23 (11.4) | | 40–60 | 4 (9.1) | 22 (10.9) | | 60–80 | 8 (18.2) | 25 (12.4) | | 80–100 | 28 (63.6) | 125 (62.2) |
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*Fischer’s exact test was used here as there were cells with low counts.
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