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[Daily "routine chest x-ray" in ventilated surgical intensive care patients]
K Beyermann1, J Kussmann, M Gartenschläger
1Zentrum für Operative Medizin I, Philipps-Universität, Marburg.
Der Chirurg; Zeitschrift Fur Alle Gebiete Der Operativen Medizen
|December 1, 1993
Abstract:
We investigated the relevance of daily routine chest x-ray in intensive care for therapeutical decision. A special emphasis was put on clinical laboratory parameters according to the APACHE-II-score. Within a prospective study we investigated 40 intubated patients of our surgical intensive care unit with a total of 609 x-ray films. 26% of all pictures gained influence on therapeutical procedure. Analysis of different patient subgroups showed only between those under 50 and those above 70 years of age an important discrepancy quote of relevant films (19 vs. 31%).