TY  - CHAP
M1  - Book, Section
TI  - Cervical Spine Injuries
A1  - DeKoning, Paul E.
A2  - Sherman, Scott C.
A2  - Weber, Joseph M.
A2  - Schindlbeck, Michael A.
A2  - Rahul G., Patwari
PY  - 2014
T2  - Clinical Emergency Medicine
AB  - Use  the  NEXUS  criteria  and/or  Canadian  C-Spine  rules  to  determine  which  patients  require  radiographic  imaging.Forego  plain  films  and  proceed  directly  to  computed  tomography  imaging  of  the  cervical  spine  for  all  patients  with  a  moderate  to  high  risk  of  injury.Consider  spinal  cord  injury  without  radiologic  abnormality  in  pediatric  patients  with  neurologic  findings  despite  negative  initial  imaging.The  use  of  high-dose  corticosteroids  to  improve  long-term  neurologic  outcomes  in  patients  with  blunt  spinal  cord  injury  is  no  longer  recommended.  
SN  - 
PB  - McGraw-Hill Education
CY  - New York, NY
Y2  - 2024/04/16
UR  - accessemergencymedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1101228775
ER  -