Value of repeat CT for nonoperative management of patients with blunt liver and spleen injury: a systematic review
Autor: | Lynne Moore, John B. Kortbeek, Pier-Alexandre Tardif, Howard Champion, Julien Clément, Kahina Soltana, Natalie L. Yanchar, Khadidja Malloum Boukar |
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Rok vydání: | 2021 |
Předmět: |
Adult
medicine.medical_specialty Blood transfusion Sports medicine medicine.medical_treatment MEDLINE Abdominal Injuries Wounds Nonpenetrating Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Blunt Internal medicine medicine Humans Orthopedics and Sports Medicine Embolization Nonoperative management 10. No inequality 030222 orthopedics business.industry 030208 emergency & critical care medicine 3. Good health Systematic review Liver Emergency Medicine Surgery Observational study Tomography X-Ray Computed business Spleen |
Zdroj: | European Journal of Trauma and Emergency Surgery. 47:1753-1761 |
ISSN: | 1863-9941 1863-9933 |
Popis: | To evaluate the effectiveness of routine repeat computed tomography (CT) for nonoperative management (NOM) of adults with blunt liver and/or spleen injury. We conducted a systematic review of randomized and non-randomized controlled trials (RCTs), quasi-experimental and observational studies of repeat CT in adult patients with blunt abdominal injury. We searched Medline, Embase, Web of Science, and Cochrane Central from their inception to October 2020 using Cochrane guidelines. Primary outcomes were change in clinical management (e.g., emergency surgery, embolization, blood transfusion, clinical surveillance), mortality, and complications. Secondary outcomes were hospital readmission and length of stay. Search results yielded 1611 studies of which 28 studies including 2646 patients met our inclusion criteria. The majority reported on liver (n = 9) or spleen injury (n = 16) or both (n = 3). No RCTs were identified. Meta-analyses were not possible because no study performed direct comparisons of study outcomes across intervention groups. Only seven of the twenty-eight studies reported whether repeat CT was routine or prompted by clinical indication. In these 7 studies, among the 254 repeat CT performed, 188 (74%) were routine and 8 (4%) of these led to a change in clinical management. Of the 66 (26%) repeated CT prompted by clinical indication, 31 (47%) led to a change in management. We found no data allowing comparison of any other outcomes across intervention groups. Routine repeat CT without clinical indication is not useful in the management of patients with liver and/or spleen injury. However, effect estimates were imprecise and included studies were of low methodological quality. Given the risks of unnecessary radiation and costs associated with repeat CT, future research should aim to estimate the frequency of such practices and assess practice variation. Systematic reviews and meta-analyses, Level II. |
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