Emergency Radiology

Emergency Radiology (Imaging of Trauma)

Sunday, Nov. 28, 10:45 AM – 12:15 PM

Researchers are sharing multiple studies focused on emergent CT applications including the use of whole body CT angiography for abdominal organ evaluation in blunt trauma; appropriateness of whole-body CT angiography in motorized blunt force trauma patients without signs of serious injury and presentation of a cranial CT algorithm for detection of skull fractures.

Speaker Information:
  • Alisa D. Gean, MD, professor of radiology, neurology and neurosurgery, University of California, San Francisco;
  • Felipe Munera, MD, associate of clinical radiology, University of Miami School of Medicine; and
  • Mariano Scaglione, MD, director, department of radiology, Pineta Grande Clinical Institute in Caserta, Italy.

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