Radiologic diagnostic procedures in severely injured patients - is only whole-body multislice computed tomography the answer?

Table 1 Comparison between group I (initial X-ray followed by MSCT) and group II (initial MSCT)

	X-ray followed by WB-MSCT (group I)	Initial WB-MSCT without X-ray (group II)
Male (p = 0.497) chi² = 0.462	73.5% (n = 2,937)	72.8% (n = 2,932)
Age (p = 0.429)	45.5 (±20) years	45.1 (±19.8) years
ISS (p = 0.913)	29.9 (±12.3)	29.9 (±12.6)
Surgery (p = 0.550) chi² = 0.357	74.4% (n = 2,998)	73.8% (n = 2,993)
Mortality (p = 0.786) chi² = 0.074	18.2% (n = 732)	18.4% (n = 746)
Hospitalization (p < 0.001)	25.2 (±25.2) days	27.9 (±30.2) days
ICU (p < 0.01)	12.3 (±14.3) days	13.0 (±15.4) days
Ventilation days (p < 0.01)	7.7 (±11.7)	8.7 (±13.4)
Red packed blood cells (p = 0.498)	2.3 (±5.7)	2.4 (±6.2)
RISC (p = 0.961)	21.4 % (±28)	21.4 % (±28)

ISS = injury severity score; WB-MSCT = whole-body multislice computed tomography; ICU = intensive care unit; RISC = revised injury severity classification.

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