ArticleMedical & biological engineering & computing2020
Infrared thermal imaging as a screening tool for paediatric wrist fractures.
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- Uses of infrared thermography in acute illness: a systematic review.Frontiers in medicine · 2024Pooled it
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- Thermal Changes During Clavicle Fracture Healing in Children.Journal of clinical medicine · 2024Article
- Convolutional Neural Network to Classify Infrared Thermal Images of Fractured Wrists in Pediatrics.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Detecting bone lesions in the emergency room with medical infrared thermography.Biomedical engineering online · 2022Article
- Applications of thermal imaging with infrared thermography in Orthopaedics.Journal of clinical orthopaedics and trauma · 2022Article
- Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis: A Review of Novel Diagnostic and Monitoring Technologies.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Review
- Evaluation of Tibia Bone Healing by Infrared Thermography: A Case Study.Journal of multidisciplinary healthcare · 2021Article
- Clinical Utility of Infrared Thermography in Pediatric Patients: A Systematic Review of Surgical and Nonsurgical Applications.Journal of Indian Association of Pediatric SurgeonsReview
- Current Use of Infrared Thermography in Orthopaedic and Bone or Joint Trauma Patients-Can We Identify Postoperative Infection? A Narrative Systematic Review.Strategies in trauma and limb reconstructionReview
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Abstract
Wrist injuries are common in paediatric trauma; however, only half of children evaluated with an x-ray for possible fractures will have one. Thermal imaging offers a possible non-ionising method of screening for fractures and thus reducing negative x-ray rates. One hundred five children attending the Emergency Department for wrist injuries were recruited. Two 30-s thermal videos were recorded from injured and uninjured wrists-in flat and 45° elevated positions. A region of interest (ROI) was defined on each wrist. Cases in which the ROI was covered or had ice applied were excluded, leaving 40 patients for analysis. Comparisons of ROI included (i) injured and uninjured wrists-flat and elevated positions; (ii) as in (i) with a reference region on the proximal forearm subtracted; (iii) injured wrist ROI-flat and elevated positions. Fractures and sprains increased the mean skin surface temperature by 1.519% (p = 0.008) and 0.971% (p = 0.055) respectively compared with the uninjured wrist. The mean temperature difference between flat and elevated positions for fractures was 0.268% and - 0.1291% for sprains. This difference was statistically significant for fracture (p = 0.004) but not sprain (p = 0.500). The temperature differences recorded by thermal imaging between fractured and sprained wrists may assist in differentiation of these injuries. Graphical abstract Operational stages involved from thermal video recording to generation of results.
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