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Using MRI in Emergency Departments; Expensive Choice, But Sometimes the Optimal Means of Evaluation!
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: Received: 15 March 2020 / Approved: 17 March 2020 / Online: 17 March 2020 (04:01:04 CET)
How to cite: Baştuğ, B.T. Using MRI in Emergency Departments; Expensive Choice, But Sometimes the Optimal Means of Evaluation!. Preprints 2020, 2020030266 Baştuğ, B.T. Using MRI in Emergency Departments; Expensive Choice, But Sometimes the Optimal Means of Evaluation!. Preprints 2020, 2020030266
Abstract
Most pathologies in emergency departments(EDs) can be detected with using non-invasive, extremely safe magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). MRI is highly sensitive to abnormality, so when compared to Computed Tomography(CT), a negative MRI far exceeds the value of a negative CT. This was a retrospective cohort study comparing resource utilization between September 2016 and September 2017 in a university hospital ED. Descriptive statistics are presented with frequency, percentage, mean, standard deviation, minimum and maximum values. A chi-square analysis was conducted to examine the relationships. Analyses were conducted using the SPSS 22.0 package program. In the ED, MRI is available 24/7. MRI was performed on 954 (479 female, 475 male) patients. A total of 212 cranial, 604 diffusion, 57 lumbar, 40 cervical, 38 dorsal, two abdominal, and one orbital MRIs were performed. In most groups, the average age was over 40, and the age distribution was similar (p = 0.12). There was no significant sex difference except for lumbar MRI. Lumbar MRI and diffusion MRI groups were admitted to the hospital mostly in the day hours (p = 0.03); in other groups, night and day admissions were almost the same. Neuroimaging takes the majority part of MRI examinations in our ED.
Keywords
magnetic resonance imaging; emergency departments; utility
Subject
Medicine and Pharmacology, Emergency Medicine
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