Final-year medical students’ perspective: a survey on the use of computed tomography in sepsis

Insights into Imaging

Table 4 Students’ responses regarding the administration of contrast agent in CT examinations of different body regions

	Unenhanced examination		Rather unenhanced examination		Rather intravenous contrast agent administration		Definitive intravenous contrast agent administration		Total
	n	%	n	%	n	%	n	%	n
Focus search chest	13	12	49	45	34	32	12	11	108
Focus search abdomen	5	5	28	26	51	47	24	22	108
Focus search chest/abdomen/pelvis	7	7	29	27	46	43	25	23	107

CT Computed tomography
For a chest CT scan to determine the focus of infection, 57.1% (n = 62/108) of the participants chose a (2) rather unenhanced or (1) unenhanced examination. The answers (3) rather intravenous contrast agent administration or (4) definitive intravenous contrast agent administration were chosen by 69% (n = 75/108) of students for the abdominal focus search using CT. For focus search in the body regions chest, abdomen, and pelvis together, 66% (n = 71/107) of the students opted for both (3) rather intravenous contrast agent administration and (4) definitive intravenous contrast agent administration