Missed injuries in pediatric trauma

Missed injuries in trauma continue to be a nemesis to the trauma surgeon. M issed injuries in adult trauma patients range in frequency from 9 to 28 per cent, with some being life threatening or permanently disabling. We report the incidence of missed. injuries in pediatric trauma to be 20 per cent, i n our retrospective review of 107 severe pediatric trauma patients. These m issed injuries, however, were neither life threatening nor permanently disa bling. We also found that mechanism of injury and patient age affected the incidence of missed injuries in our population.