{"id":642,"date":"2015-04-29T16:31:36","date_gmt":"2015-04-29T20:31:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/emeddoc.org\/?p=642"},"modified":"2015-04-29T16:31:42","modified_gmt":"2015-04-29T20:31:42","slug":"when-will-we-stop-oral-contrast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emeddoc.org\/?p=642","title":{"rendered":"When will we STOP oral contrast?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You can find in this blog at least 6 references talking about Contrast vs Non contrast CT, but this new study in Annals of EM showed the same result that oral contrast in detecting intra-abdominal pathologies is useless. Wow, this is a big word. USELESS.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->12,044 patients enrolled, 5,276 patients had CT scan with IV con, 4,987 patients had no Po or Po contrast. 20 % had Oral con and 80% did not have Oral contrast. they did not find any meaningful detection of\u00a0 intra-<span class=\"highlight\">abdominal<\/span> injury\u00a0 between CT with and without <span class=\"highlight\">oral<\/span> <span class=\"highlight\">contrast<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/?term=Use+of+Oral+Contrast+for+Abdominal+Computed+Tomography+in+Children+With+Blunt+Torso+Trauma\">Link to article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You can find in this blog at least 6 references talking about Contrast vs Non contrast CT, but this new study in Annals of EM showed the same result that oral contrast in detecting intra-abdominal pathologies is useless. Wow, this is a big word. USELESS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,14,15,16,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pgy1","category-pgy2","category-pgy3","category-pgy4","category-trauma"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/emeddoc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642","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=642"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/emeddoc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":643,"href":"https:\/\/emeddoc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642\/revisions\/643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/emeddoc.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emeddoc.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emeddoc.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}