Evaluating Validity of Clinical Criteria for Requesting Chest X-Rays in Trauma Patients

Isfahan University of Medical Sciences

Status: Completed

Conditions: Chest Trauma

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01134744

ASD-1213-3

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to identify the clinical criteria for requesting a chest x-ray in a patient with blunt trauma and its findings such as clinical signs with a high sensitivity could be used in a larger study to codify the final criteria.

Full description

At present, a Chest x-ray is obtained from all trauma patients having suspicion to chest trauma. The indications for such radiographs are not well defined. This results in a large number of unnecessary chest radiographs being obtained. Our goal was to identify the clinical criteria for requesting a chest x-ray in a patient with blunt trauma and its findings such as clinical signs with a high sensitivity could be used in a larger study to codify the final criteria.

Enrollment: 385 patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Every patient with blunt trauma to chest

Exclusion criteria

• nothing

Trial design

385 participants in 1 patient group

Chest trauma

Description:

chest x-ray applied for patients with chest trauma and the manifestations compared with clinical examination