Class IIa recommendations for calcium scoring are for asymptomatic patients with an intermediate (10% to 20%) 10-year risk of cardiac events based on the Framingham risk score (FRS) or other global risk algorithm, and for asymptomatic patients 40 years and older with diabetes mellitus. The guid...
researchers also performed a retrospective investigation comparing a robust clinical follow-up and/or cervical spine MRI findings in 53 obtunded blunt trauma patients, who previously had undergone a normal multi-detector CT scan of the cervical spine reported by a radiologist. A total of 10 studies...