In order to address these concerns, there has been an effort in recent years to develop clinical decision rules that can safely and reliable "rule-out" C-spine injury. The NEXUS Low-Risk Criteria and the Canadian Cervical Spine Rule have emerged as two of the most promising decision rules ...
[UNHCR] The International Committee of the Red Cross's delegate-general for the Asia- Pacific region, Reto Meister, has called on both parties to the conflict in Sri Lanka to clearly respect the rules of war as laid down in the Geneva Conventions and customary law. He also underlined the ...
(2004) Comparing NEXUS and Canadian C-Spine decision rules for determining the need for cervical spine radiography. Annals of Emergency Medicine 43 , 518-520 /Knopp R. Comparing NEXUS and Canadian C-Spine rules for deter- mining the need for cervical spine radiography. Ann Emerg Med 2004;43:...
Methods: The present clinical audit, evaluated the correlation of cervical spine imaging orders in multiple trauma patients presented to the emergency department, with NEXUS and Canadian c-spine rules. Initially, in a pilot study, the mentioned correlation was evaluated, and afterwards the results of...