Impact of NEXUS Low-Risk Criterias on cervical injuries in Turkish tertiary care hospital | Zendy

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Impact of NEXUS Low-Risk Criterias on cervical injuries in Turkish tertiary care hospital

Author(s) -

Hasan Kavak,

Nebi Sürüm,

Erden Erol Ünlüer,

Ersin Aksay,

Abdurrahman Yılmaz,

Burak Katipoğlu

Publication year - 2017

Publication title -

eurasian journal of emergency medicine

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

eISSN - 2149-6048

pISSN - 2149-5807

DOI - 10.5152/eajem.2017.85057

Subject(s) - medicine , turkish , nexus (standard) , tertiary care , medical emergency , pediatrics , family medicine , philosophy , linguistics , computer science , embedded system

Results: In the present study, 1317 patients with a possible cervical spine injury were included. It was confirmed that the numbers of excluded and included patients according to NLC were 1014 and 303, respectively. In excluded patients, 479 (36.3%) did not have any radiology, but in 535 (52.7%) of them, unnecessary radiological imaging studies were administered. The trauma mechanism was crash at the same level in 310 (23.5%) of the total and 267 (26.3%) of the excluded patients. In addition, in-vehicle traffic accident was observed in 64 (21.1%) included patients. It was found that the number of cervical spine injuries was four in the excluded and 10 in the included groups, which was confirmed according to NLC.

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