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The whole-body scanner (SCE) is a powerful examination that guides the management of patients severely traumatized. However, the systematic use of this examination in emergency departments is responsible for a large proportion of normal examinations. In addition to the non-negligible direct cost, the average irradiation of 20 mSv would give an adult a 1 in 1000 risk of developing a cancer. The Vittel score makes it possible to categorize pre-hospital patients as seriously traumatized to guide the sending of resources and direct them to a center equipped with a suitable technical platform.
The use of this score to condition the prescription of the ECS is at the origin of an over-triage important since one out of two patients who validates at least one criterion has no lesion on imaging. The purpose of this research project is to validate a decision support tool to objectively guide the emergency physician in its use of the ECS. At the same time, the economic impact of such a procedure will be analysed.
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| Name | Type | Description | Arm Group Labels | Other Names |
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| whole-body computed tomography | Diagnostic Test | whole-body computed tomography prescription in the emergency department : an identification tool for low risk patients |
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| PHASE I: Assess the negative predictive value of a 15-criteria score to exclude the traumatized patient from a whole-body CT (SCE) imaging strategy to emergencies. | The main judgment criterion is defined by the uselessness of the whole body scanner, evaluated from the SCE voucher which will contain the 15 criteria from phase I. | through study Phase 1 completion, an average of 1 year |
| PHASE II: To quantify the effective reduction in SCE requests after the validated score is made available on the SCE prescription vouchers. | The main judgment criterion is the prescription of an irrelevant whole-body scanner (a patient whose 15 safety criteria are validated). | through study Phase 2 completion, an average of 1 year |
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All adult patients consulting in the emergency room after a trauma whose mechanism of injury is a fall or a road accident and indicated for the realization of a whole body scanner.
| Name | Role | Phone | Extension | |
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| David MALLET | Contact | 0033 2 32 88 82 65 | secretariat.DRC@chu-rouen.fr |
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| Facility | Status | City | State | ZIP | Country | Contacts |
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| Services des Urgences Adultes | Recruiting | Rouen | 76031 | France |
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| ID | Term |
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| D014947 | Wounds and Injuries |
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