Increase in Non-Contrast Computerized Tomography Scans of the Head Following Popular Media Stories About Head Injury

Increase in Non-Contrast Computerized Tomography Scans of the Head Following Popular Media Stories About Head Injury

Introduction: On March 18, 2009, actress Natasha Richardson died after a head injury. It is possiblethat the rate of patients presenting with mild head injury and receiving computed tomographies (CTs)may have been influenced by the Richardson event. We hypothesized that there was a statisticallysign...

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Main Authors: Matthew J. Pirotte, D. Mark Courtney, Michael J. Schmidt, Rachel Davis Mersey
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: eScholarship Publishing, University of California 2012-12-01
Series:Western Journal of Emergency Medicine
Subjects:
Emergency medicine
computerized tomography
non-contrast
contrast
CT
head
trauma
Online Access:http://escholarship.org/uc/item/60d4b2fh

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