Negative Focused Abdominal Sonography for Trauma examination predicts successful nonoperative management in pediatric solid organ injury: A prospective Arizona-Texas-Oklahoma-Memphis-Arkansas + Consortium study

• Published in: The journal of trauma and acute care surgery Vol. 86; no. 1; p. 86
• Main Authors: McGaha, 2nd, Paul, Motghare, Prasenjeet, Sarwar, Zoona, Garcia, Nilda M, Lawson, Karla A, Bhatia, Amina, Langlais, Crystal S, Linnaus, Maria E, Maxson, R Todd, Eubanks, 3rd, James W, Alder, Adam C, Tuggle, David, Ponsky, Todd A, Leys, Charles W, Ostlie, Daniel J, St Peter, Shawn D, Notrica, David M, Letton, Robert W
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States 01.01.2019
• Subjects: Abdominal Injuries - diagnostic imaging; Abdominal Injuries - therapy; Adolescent; Arizona - epidemiology; Arkansas - epidemiology; Case-Control Studies; Child; Child, Preschool; Female; Focused Assessment with Sonography for Trauma - methods; Humans; Injury Severity Score; Liver - injuries; Male; Oklahoma - epidemiology; Predictive Value of Tests; Prognosis; Prospective Studies; Retrospective Studies; Shock - diagnosis; Shock - therapy; Spleen - injuries; Texas - epidemiology; Trauma Centers - statistics & numerical data; Treatment Failure; Wounds, Nonpenetrating - diagnostic imaging; Wounds, Nonpenetrating - therapy; Arkansas; Oklahoma; Texas; Arizona

Focused Abdominal Sonography for Trauma (FAST) examination has long been proven useful in the management of adult trauma patients, however, its utility in pediatric trauma patients is not as proven. Our goal was to evaluate the utility of a FAST examination in predicting the success or failure of no...