Background: More than 180 000 patients present annually with facial trauma to emergency
rooms in the United States. Maxillofacial computed tomography is the gold standard in …

Objectives: Patients sustaining multisystem trauma are at risk for oral and maxillofacial
fractures. Although the University of Wisconsin established criteria to help guide the clinician …

Background: Over 150,000 patients present with maxillofacial trauma annually to emergency
rooms in the United States. Although maxillofacial computed tomography is a sensitive …

Background There are> 150,000 patient visits per year to emergency rooms for facial
trauma. The reliability of a computed tomography (CT) scan has made it the primary modality …

PURPOSE: Head-injured patients admitted to a trauma center may or may not have
associated facial fractures. Most head-injured patients undergo head computed tomography …

PURPOSE: While the trauma computed tomography (CT) head scan is frequently ordered
during resuscitation of multiply injured patients, determining when also to order facial CT in …

Background Computed tomography of the head (CTH) and maxillofacial bones (CTMF) can
be performed concurrently, but CTMF is frequently ordered separately, after facial fractures …

Background Patients who present for a trauma workup often have a head computed
tomography (CT) performed to identify intracranial pathology. Facial fractures are routinely …

Abstract Objectives In 1978 the Advanced Trauma Life Support guidelines were first
implemented and are viewed by many as the gold standard of care in the emergency setting …

Objective To determine how often the management of patients with blunt facial trauma was
altered by plain roentgenograms or facial computed tomographic (CT) scans compared with …