PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE AU - Nikki Abela AU - Elizabeth Herrieven TI - Fifteen-minute consultation: Imaging in paediatric major trauma AID - 10.1136/archdischild-2019-318247 DP - 2020 Dec 01 TA - Archives of disease in childhood - Education & practice edition PG - 326--330 VI - 105 IP - 6 4099 - http://ep.bmj.com/content/105/6/326.short 4100 - http://ep.bmj.com/content/105/6/326.full SO - Arch Dis Child Educ Pract Ed2020 Dec 01; 105 AB - With trauma being a leading cause of death for children, identifying all sustained injuries remains a priority for clinicians, and imaging is a key diagnostic tool to ensure that is achieved. However, children have a greater risk of detrimental effects of ionising radiation than adults. Clinicians therefore have to balance limiting their patients’ radiation exposure to ‘as low as reasonably achievable’ with the need for diagnostic accuracy. But what is ‘reasonable’ in major trauma can be confusing. This article aims to clarify the current guidance on which body part to scan and when in paediatric major trauma.