Accuracy of the Canadian C-spine rule and NEXUS to screen for clinically important cervical spine injury in patients following blunt trauma: a systematic review

ZA Michaleff, CG Maher, AP Verhagen, T Rebbeck… - Cmaj, 2012 - Can Med Assoc
Background: There is uncertainty about the optimal approach to screen for clinically
important cervical spine (C-spine) injury following blunt trauma. We conducted a systematic …

Test performance of the individual NEXUS low-risk clinical screening criteria for cervical spine injury

EA Panacek, WR Mower, JF Holmes… - Annals of emergency …, 2001 - Elsevier
Background: The National Emergency X-Radiography Utilization Study (NEXUS) recently
validated the ability of a decision instrument to define a population with an extremely low risk …

[HTML][HTML] Validity of a set of clinical criteria to rule out injury to the cervical spine in patients with blunt trauma

JR Hoffman, WR Mower, AB Wolfson… - … England Journal of …, 2000 - Mass Medical Soc
Background Because clinicians fear missing occult cervical-spine injuries, they obtain
cervical radiographs for nearly all patients who present with blunt trauma. Previous research …

Computed tomography versus plain radiography to screen for cervical spine injury: a meta-analysis

JF Holmes, R Akkinepalli - Journal of Trauma and Acute Care …, 2005 - journals.lww.com
Background: To compare the test performance of plain radiography and computed
tomography (CT) in the detection of patients with cervical spine injuries following blunt …

CT should replace three-view radiographs as the initial screening test in patients at high, moderate, and low risk for blunt cervical spine injury: a prospective …

J Bailitz, F Starr, M Beecroft, J Bankoff… - Journal of Trauma …, 2009 - journals.lww.com
Background: An estimated 10,000 Americans suffer cervical spine injuries each year. More
than 800,000 cervical spine radiographs (CSR) are ordered annually. The human and …

The NEXUS criteria are insufficient to exclude cervical spine fractures in older blunt trauma patients

G Paykin, G O'Reilly, HM Ackland, B Mitra - Injury, 2017 - Elsevier
Abstract Background and objective The National Emergency X-Radiography Utilization
Study (NEXUS) criteria are used to assess the need for imaging to evaluate cervical spine …

Retrospective application of the NEXUS low-risk criteria for cervical spine radiography in Canadian emergency departments

G Dickinson, IG Stiell, M Schull, R Brison… - Annals of emergency …, 2004 - Elsevier
STUDY OBJECTIVE: We evaluate the accuracy, reliability, and potential impact of the
National Emergency X-Radiography Utilization Study (NEXUS) low-risk criteria for cervical …

Safe cervical spine clearance in adult obtunded blunt trauma patients on the basis of a normal multidetector CT scan—a meta-analysis and cohort study

M Raza, S Elkhodair, A Zaheer, S Yousaf - Injury, 2013 - Elsevier
Background A true gold standard to rule out a significant cervical spine injury in subset of
blunt trauma patients with altered sensorium is still to be agreed upon. The objective of this …

Clinical examination and its reliability in identifying cervical spine fractures

TM Duane, T Dechert, LG Wolfe… - Journal of Trauma …, 2007 - journals.lww.com
Background: The Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma (EAST) guidelines
recommend that cervical spine (c-spine) radiographic evaluation is unnecessary in the …

Radiographic clearance of blunt cervical spine injury: plain radiograph or computed tomography scan?

MM Griffen, ER Frykberg, AJ Kerwin… - Journal of Trauma …, 2003 - journals.lww.com
Background The purpose of this study was to evaluate the roles of cervical spine
radiographs (CSR) and computed tomography of the cervical spine (CTC) in the exclusion of …