NEXUS Cervical Spine Criteria
2001; Elsevier BV; Volume: 37; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1067/mem.2001.112728
ISSN1097-6760
Autores Tópico(s)Spinal Fractures and Fixation Techniques
ResumoIn 1998, your journal published the methods of the first National Emergency X-Radiography Utilization Study (NEXUS) (article #93129),1 a well-designed, enormous, multicenter, prospective undertaking to define the sensitivity of 5 clinical criteria for detecting significant cervical spine injury among patients with blunt trauma. That article whet the appetites of emergency physicians all over the world for sound, evidence-based, clinical criteria to guide us in the safe selective use of the standard 3-view cervical spine series.
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