Effect of whole-body CT during trauma resuscitation on survival: a retrospective, multicentre study

The number of trauma centres using whole-body CT for early assessment of primary trauma is increasing. There is no evidence to suggest that use of whole-body CT has any effect on the outcome of patients with major trauma. We therefore compared the probability of survival in patients with blunt trauma who had whole-body CT during resuscitation with those who had not.In a retrospective, multicentre study, we used the data recorded in the trauma...