Growing a spine

Facilitator: Tom

0830 - Case based discussions | ECGs | Radiology

0930 - The original and the best: NEXUS in all its glory

1030 - Morning tea

1045 - Nannageddon: geriatric cervical trauma assessment

1115 - Trauma radiology: cervical spine

1200 - Paeds c-spine trauma review and perspectives

1230 - Cervical collars: horror stories of iatrogenic harm

Essential reading

Validity of a set of clinical criteria to rule out injury to the cervical spine in patients with blunt trauma. National Emergency X-Radiography Utilization Study Group

The Canadian C-spine rule versus the NEXUS low-risk criteria in patients with trauma

National Emergency X-Radiography Utilization Study criteria is inadequate to rule out fracture after significant blunt trauma compared with computed tomography

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

For audit purposes - 30% paediatrics