A comparison of the management of blunt splenic injury in children and young people-A New South Wales, population-based, retrospective study

While Paediatric Surgeons have wholeheartedly adopted non-operative management, away from paediatric centres, it is possible children and young people in NSW are undergoing operation unnecessarily. Further evaluation of the surgeon attitudes and institutional factors involved in the management of injured children and young people within the broad NSW trauma system is required.