The initial assessment of severely injured patients in the resuscitation room requires a systematic and quickly performed survey. Whereas the Advanced Trauma Life Support (ATLS®)-based algorithm recommends focused assessment with sonography in trauma (FAST) among others, recent studies report a survival advantage of early whole-body computed tomography (WBCT) in haemodynamically stable as well as unstable patients. This study assessed the opinions of trauma surgeons about the early use of WBCT in severely injured patients with abdominal trauma, and abdominal CT in patients with isolated abdominal trauma, during resuscitation room treatment.An online cross-sectional survey was performed over 8 months. Members of the Swiss Society for Surgery and the Austrian and German associations for trauma surgery were invited to answer nine online questions.Overall, 175 trauma surgeons from 155 departments participated. For haemodynamically stable patients, most considered FAST (77.6

作者：L, Grünherz；K O, Jensen；V, Neuhaus；L, Mica；C M L, Werner；B, Ciritsis；C, Michelitsch；G, Osterhoff；H-P, Simmen；K, Sprengel

来源：European journal of trauma and emergency surgery : official publication of the European Trauma Society 2017 年