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Table 2 Imaging and hospital readmissions occurring during the six-month period following discharge for patients residing in Calgary

From: The song remains the same although the instruments are changing: complications following selective non-operative management of blunt spleen trauma: a retrospective review of patients at a level I trauma centre from 1996 to 2007

Outcome

All, N = 236 n (%)

OMa, N = 57 n (%)

NOMb, N = 179 n (%)

Abdominal imaging within 6 months of hospital discharge

   

Received follow up CTc

41 (17)

5 (9)

36 (20)

No imaging

195 (83)

52 (91)

143 (80)

USd or MRIe only †

2(1)

1 (2)

1 (2)

Hospital re-admissions and surgeries relating to the spleen injury within 6 months of hospital discharge

   

Re-admitted to hospital

5 (2)

2 (4)

3 (2)

Underwent spleen surgery

0 (0)

0 (0)

1 (1)

Received SAAf

2 (1)

0(0)

2 (1)

  1. †One patient in the NOM group had SAA during initial admission and received an abdominal MRI in the follow up period.
  2. a OM = operative management
  3. b NOM = non-operative management
  4. c CT = Computed tomography
  5. d US = ultrasound
  6. e MRI = magnetic resonance imaging
  7. f SAA = Splenic Artery Angiography