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Keywords:
Outcomes, Image verification, Education and training, Comparative studies, Conventional radiography, Pelvis, Musculoskeletal bone, Emergency
Authors:
K. G. Ataç, B. Yılmaz, A. Alhan, E. Sanhal, B. Güçlü, S. Gündoğdu; Ankara/TR
DOI:
10.1594/ecr2015/C-2404
Conclusion
Older people without normal reflexes to protect themselves are more prone to broke proximal femur when fell and hit the floor.
Even if the numbers of femur fractures decrease in developed countries like USA in last 20 years,
it I,s still a problem for community from the protectipn odf older people to diagnose and manage the treatment (1).
Sensitivity of the AP pelvis x-ray images is around 90% in emergency settings.
Additional projections may increase efficiency but difficult to perform in a painful situation.
Pulling the affected side during the exposure may also increase the diagnostic capacity.
Magnetic resonance Imaging is better than Computed Tomography for imaging of unclear fracture line (2).
There is plenty of research for evaluation of interpretation skills of the ER physicians with different rate of success.
The common point of interest is decreasing the errors and increasing the quality of patient care (3,
4,
5).
We compared the interpretation success of the ER residents after short and long education periods.
Better performance after a detailed one by one education was compatible with similar projects.
It shows the need for detailed information transfer from the experts instead of short lectures.
Education unimportant increases in their confidence and speed of interpretation even after a lesson but results were significant for the long period education.
Focused training for image evaluation may increase the interpretation performance in comparison to a short lecture.