Steve Stilianos
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The degree of midline tenderness, believability of patient report, and presence of paraspinal muscle spasm guide the astute clinician in deciding whether to pursue MRI.
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Cervical Spine Injury
Children without distracting injuries, without neurologic symptoms, and with minimal or no tenderness are likely over-imaged for C-spine injury.
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Cervical Spine Injury: Update Course 2016
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The degree of midline tenderness, believability of patient report, and presence of paraspinal muscle spasm guide the astute clinician in deciding whether to pursue MRI.
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The degree of tenderness, the believability of the tenderness, the spasm of the neck muscles is really going to guide an astute clinician.
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Children without distracting injuries, without neurologic symptoms, and with minimal or no tenderness are likely over-imaged for C-spine injury.
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We've over imaged those children. We know it for sure and slowly we'll get better at being able to show restraint in our imaging.
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Cervical Spine Injury: Update Course 2016
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Steve Stilianos summarizing the discussion: Work from PECARN (Pediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network) is helping identify which pediatric patients do not need any C-spine imaging.
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