Triage tools for detecting cervical spine injury in paediatric trauma patients

CONCLUSIONS: There is insufficient evidence to determine the diagnostic test accuracy of CDRs to detect CSIs in children following blunt trauma, particularly for children under eight years of age. Although most studies had a high sensitivity, this was often achieved at the expense of low specificity and should be interpreted with caution due to a small number of CSIs and wide CIs. Well-designed, large studies are required to evaluate the accuracy of CDRs for the cervical spine clearance in children following blunt trauma, ideally in direct comparison with each other.PMID:38517085 | PMC:PMC10958760 | DOI:10.1002/14651858.CD011686.pub3
Source: Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews - Category: General Medicine Authors: Source Type: research