Focused Assessment with Sonography in Trauma and Abdominal Computed Tomography Utilization in Adult Trauma Patients: Trends over the Last Decade

Table 1

Patient demographics and imaging studies performed by year.

Year	Number of patients	Median age (years)	Mortality (%)	Median ISS	Dispo to OR (%)	Dispo to ICU (%)	Number of FAST	Percentage of FAST*	Number of abdominal CT	Percentage of abdominal CT*	Number of head CT	Percentage of head CT*
2002	1279	49.2	6.25	9	2.22	1.48	195	15.25	447	34.95	609	47.62
2003	1792	51.5	5.80	9	2.29	1.46	315	17.58	532	29.69	828	46.21
2004	1791	49.3	4.58	9	2.24	1.53	383	21.38	577	32.22	836	46.68
2005	1857	51.5	5.22	9	1.78	1.46	397	21.38	479	25.79	824	44.37
2006	1940	53.6	4.54	9	1.80	1.38	556	28.66	492	25.36	929	47.89
2007	2072	53.1	4.92	9	1.56	1.43	650	31.37	498	24.03	963	46.48
2008	2110	54.4	4.69	9	1.64	1.48	752	35.64	467	22.13	893	42.32
2009	2168	55.1	5.30	9	1.54	1.47	764	35.24	408	18.82	927	42.76
2010	2262	56.1	5.00	9	1.58	1.50	763	33.73	331	14.63	893	39.48
2011	2195	59.0	4.46	9	1.41	1.57	737	33.58	308	14.03	886	40.36

∗Percentage of total patients who received the listed imaging test during their trauma evaluation in the ED.