Expert Discusses Cost Effectiveness of Universal Screening for Blunt Cerebrovascular Injury

In this episode of The Operative Word from JACS, host Dante Yeh MD, MHPE, FACS, is joined by Sharven Taghavi, MD, MPH, MS, FACS, from the Tulane University School of Medicine in New Orleans, LA. They discuss Dr. Taghavi’s study on blunt cerebrovascular injury, which is a significant cause of morbidity and mortality in patients with blunt trauma. Using a Markov decision analysis, the authors found that universal screening for cerebrovascular injury using CT angiography in blunt trauma victims was the optimal strategy.