Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on Trauma CT Imaging

Table 1

The comparison of total CTs, total STAT CTs, total trauma patients, total trauma CTs, the rate of pan-scans, and the percentage of negative CT scans in our level 1 trauma center during two lockdown periods in 2020 versus the corresponding prepandemic period in 2019.

	Prepandemic (Mar, 2019)	2020 (1st lockdown)	Prepandemic (Nov, 2019)	2020 (2nd lockdown)	value
Total CTs	3105	2243	3597	3083	0.0008
Total STAT CTs	1832	1573	2303	1973
STAT CTs rate	59.0%	70.1%	64.0%	64.0%
Total trauma patients	220	211	281	250	0.0395
Total trauma CTs	436	446	541	508
Total trauma CT rate	23.8%	28.4%	23.5%	25.7%
Neg scan	101	84	148	93	0.268
Neg rate	45.90%	39.80%	52.67%	37.20%
Pan-scan	70	81	107	86	0.832
Pan-scan rate	31.80%	38.40%	38.08%	34.40%