Original Research Article
Year: 2020 | Month: July-September | Volume: 5 | Issue: 3 | Pages: 75-80
Utility of CT Scan Head in Non-Trauma Patients; How Appropriate We Are?
Abdul Wahid Bhat1, Basil Wahid Bhat2
1Additional Professor Emergency Medicine, Sher-I-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences, Soura Srinagar Kashmir
2Medical Student, Sher-I-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences, Soura Srinagar Kashmir
Corresponding Author: Abdul Wahid Bhat
ABSTRACT
There has been a significant increase in the overall use of CT scans of head in patients over last few decades and this is particularly happening in the emergency departments. This increase in CT scans have variable effects on patients like cost of therapy, radiations, manpower dislocation from other needed areas of the hospital. To know Utility and appropriateness of these CT scans is very important. This is the first study which looks into utility of CT head in non-trauma patients, whether it was appropriate or inappropriate. Although there are clinical guidelines for performing CT head in non-trauma patients but the same are not utilized to the best. The reasons for it are different from easy availability to medico legal repercussions.
Keywords: Appropriate, CT head, non-trauma, emergency department (ED)