Explore a comprehensive 25-minute video lecture on bowel and mesenteric injury mechanisms and CT findings in pediatric patients. Learn about high-risk scenarios, diagnostic challenges, and key CT indicators from expert George Taylor. Delve into topics such as handlebar injuries, high-specificity findings, false positives, extravasation, vascular obstruction, and focal bowel wall thickening. Understand the significance of isolated versus multiple findings, digital duodenal perforation, and the sensitivity and specificity of various diagnostic markers. Gain valuable insights into penetrating bowel injuries and their management in critically ill children. This OPENPediatrics video is part of a peer-reviewed, open-access learning platform designed for healthcare clinicians worldwide, sponsored by Boston Children's Hospital in collaboration with the World Federation of Pediatric Intensive and Critical Care Societies.
Bowel and Mesenteric Injury - High Risk Mechanisms and CT Findings
Overview
Syllabus
Introduction
Overview
Challenges
Lapel Diagnosis
Handlebar Injury
High specificity findings
External mental gasps
False positive causes
Presence of gas
False positives
Extravasation
Vascular obstruction
Focal bowel wall thickening
focal mesenteric fluid
unexplained peritoneal fluid
isolated finding
multiple findings
digital duodenal perforation
frequency of findings
sensitivity and specificity
penetrating bowel injury
summary
Taught by
OPENPediatrics
