TY - JOUR T1 - Fifteen-minute consultation: Imaging in paediatric major trauma JF - Archives of disease in childhood - Education & practice edition JO - Arch Dis Child Educ Pract Ed SP - 326 LP - 330 DO - 10.1136/archdischild-2019-318247 VL - 105 IS - 6 AU - Nikki Abela AU - Elizabeth Herrieven Y1 - 2020/12/01 UR - http://ep.bmj.com/content/105/6/326.abstract N2 - 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. ER -