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ArticleEmergency medicine international2013

Full-body x-ray imaging to facilitate triage: a potential aid in high-volume emergency departments.

S P Whiley, H Alves, S Grace

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Article in Emergency medicine international, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT03102216 (An Assessment of the Impact of Enhanced Workflow Patterns Associated With Upfront, Early Point-of-care Testing on Costs, Waiting and Disposition Times in an Emergency Department), which is not on this map. Cited by 1 paper.

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NCT03102216 nacompletednot on this mapstarted 2017, after this paper: background citation

An Assessment of the Impact of Enhanced Workflow Patterns Associated With Upfront, Early Point-of-care Testing on Costs, Waiting and Disposition Times in an Emergency Department

TypeinterventionalSponsorHelen Joseph HospitalRan2017 to 2017Enrolled1,134ConditionsEmergency Medicine, Point-of-Care TestingArmsiSTAT, CBC, ECG, Lodox
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3 authors.

S P WhileyDepartment of Human Biology, University of Cape Town, Observatory, Cape Town 7925, South Africa ; Lodox Systems, 7 Dartfield Road, Sandton, Johannesburg 2146, South Africa.
H Alves
S Grace

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The levels of traumatic injury seen in South African emergency departments (EDs) are epidemic. This is coupled with a severe lack of resources and adequately trained emergency staff. The Lodox Statscan (LS) is an X-ray scanner capable of producing rapid, low-dose, and full-body X-ray images. In this paper, a new trauma protocol-the Johannesburg trauma protocol-that implements LS scanning on entry to the ED as a triage tool is reported. A case study illustrating the use of LS to triage 63 patients in a single Saturday shift at a level 1 Trauma Centre is also presented. Because of the ability to rapidly and safely provide X-ray imaging information to support clinical decision making, the LS could be a useful tool to aid in resource allocation to improve treatment of the high levels of trauma patients that present to South African EDs daily.

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PMID24205438
PMCPMC3800572

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