Blunt Trauma Gestalt | OPAL RCT

The JournalFeed podcast for the week of August 7-11, 2023.

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Thursday Spoon Feed:

In this prospective observational study of patients undergoing CT imaging of the abdomen/pelvis for blunt trauma, gestalt among Emergency Medicine residents/attendings and General Surgery residents was moderately accurate but not sufficiently sensitive to rule out clinically significant injuries when the acceptable miss rate was set at 2%.

Friday Spoon Feed:

Opioid pain medications offer no benefit compared to placebo for patients with acute back or neck pain.