Emergency Room Management of Patients With Blunt Major Trauma: Evaluation of the Multislice Computed Tomography Protocol Exemplified by an Urban Trauma Center

The early clinical management of patients with major trauma still represents a challenge. To clinically evaluate the full extent of a patient's injuries is difficult, especially when the patient is unconscious. Before December 2002, trauma patients admitted to our emergency room (ER) underwent a diagnostic protocol including physical examination, conventional radiography (CR), sonography and further procedures if necessary. After the...