Keywords:
Acute, Surgery, Outcomes analysis, MR, Neuroradiology spine, Musculoskeletal spine, Emergency
Authors:
H. M. A. OBrien, G. Karnati, J. Kasznia-Brown, S. King, P. Burn; Taunton/UK
DOI:
10.26044/ecr2019/C-1124
Methods and materials
All acute OOH spinal MRIs performed over the last 4 years between February 2014 and July 2018 were retrospectively reviewed.
OOH work was taken as scans performed between 7pm and 8am.
Only scans performed for inpatient and patients from the Accident and Emergency department were included.
The radiology reports and key findings were noted.
We crossed referenced all of these patients with the spinal surgery database for the same time period to ascertain the proportion who underwent spinal surgery and in what time period following their initial MRI scan they had this surgery.
Of patients with positive scans demonstrating CES or MSCC,
their clinical notes were reviewed and the proportion that underwent same night surgery was determined.