{"id":380,"date":"2012-10-02T16:00:39","date_gmt":"2012-10-02T20:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/emeddoc.org\/?p=380"},"modified":"2012-10-02T16:00:39","modified_gmt":"2012-10-02T20:00:39","slug":"contrast-ct-or-non-con-ct","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emeddoc.org\/?p=380","title":{"rendered":"CONTRAST CT or NON CON CT?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>That is the question: contrast CT or non contrast CT?\u00a0\u00a0 it is very difficult sometimes\u00a0to answer, but for some facts such as r\/o of appy, divericulitis and other pathologies, why do we need\u00a0 Contrast CT? as an emergency physician, it is a matter of 2-4 hours of delayed disposition and increased LOS, more cost, more complications (Allergic reaction , Renal failure,..). I found this article very useful at least for acute appendicits, hope more come from our radiology colleagues<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/19843740\">Link to Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That is the question: contrast CT or non contrast CT?\u00a0\u00a0 it is very difficult sometimes\u00a0to answer, but for some facts such as r\/o of appy, divericulitis and other pathologies, why do we need\u00a0 Contrast CT? as an emergency physician, it is a matter of 2-4 hours of delayed disposition and increased LOS, more cost, more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,14,15,16,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pgy1","category-pgy2","category-pgy3","category-pgy4","category-radiology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/emeddoc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/emeddoc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/emeddoc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emeddoc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emeddoc.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=380"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/emeddoc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":382,"href":"https:\/\/emeddoc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380\/revisions\/382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/emeddoc.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emeddoc.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emeddoc.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}