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Can We Rely on Computed Tomographic Scanning to Diagnose Pulmonary Embolism in Critically III Surgical Patients? Discussion

  • George C. Velmahos
  • , Konstantinos G. Toutouzas
  • , Pantelis Vassiliu
  • , Peter Rhee
  • , Alison Wilcox
  • , Sue Ellen Hanks
  • , Linda S. Chan
  • , Areti Tillou
  • , Demetrios Demetriades
  • , John T. Owings
  • , Matthew J. Wall
  • , Joseph M. Van De Water
  • , Raul Coimbra
  • , John A. Weigelt

Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)518-526
Number of pages9
JournalJournal of Trauma - Injury, Infection and Critical Care
Volume56
Issue number3
DOIs
StatePublished - Mar 2004
Externally publishedYes

ASJC Scopus Subject Areas

  • Surgery
  • Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine

Keywords

  • Computed tomography
  • Pulmonary angiography
  • Pulmonary embolism
  • Sensitivity
  • Specificity
  • Heart Rate/physiology
  • Prospective Studies
  • Pulmonary Artery/diagnostic imaging
  • Humans
  • Middle Aged
  • Critical Illness
  • Male
  • Blood Gas Monitoring, Transcutaneous
  • Wounds and Injuries/diagnostic imaging
  • Sensitivity and Specificity
  • Adult
  • Female
  • Blood Pressure/physiology
  • Angiography/statistics & numerical data
  • Lung Compliance/physiology
  • Adolescent
  • Critical Care
  • Aged
  • Tomography, Spiral Computed/statistics & numerical data
  • Observer Variation
  • Pulmonary Embolism/diagnostic imaging

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