Validation of a Clinical Decision Instrument for Emergent Neuroimaging after a Seizure: Let's Image Malignancy, Intracranial Hemorrhage, and Trauma (LIMIT).

CONCLUSION: The validation of our CDI showed improved negative predictive value when compared to the derivation set. Using the criteria of history of ICH, active malignancy, and trauma, could have reduced the use of emergent neuroimaging in our cohort by up to 49%. This CDI should be validated in a larger subset of patients and in multiple centers prior to widespread adoption.
PMID: 33393132 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Accident and Emergency Nursing - January 3, 2021 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Isenberg DL, Muller M, Rodrigues L, Reimer H, Finlaw L, Souiarov G, Loughran S, Gentile NT Tags: Acad Emerg Med Source Type: research