Citation

Peery CL, Chendrasekhar A, Paradise NF, Moorman DW, Timberlake GA. Am. Surg. 1999; 65(11): 1067-1069.

Affiliation

Department of Surgery Education, Iowa Methodist Medical Center, Des Moines, USA.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1999, Southeastern Surgical Congress)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

10551758

Abstract

Missed injuries in trauma continue to be a nemesis to the trauma surgeon. Missed injuries in adult trauma patients range in frequency from 9 to 28 per cent, with some being life threatening or permanently disabling. We report the incidence of missed injuries in pediatric trauma to be 20 per cent, in our retrospective review of 107 severe pediatric trauma patients. These missed injuries, however, were neither life threatening nor permanently disabling. We also found that mechanism of injury and patient age affected the incidence of missed injuries in our population.

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