{"id":715,"date":"2015-12-08T23:01:11","date_gmt":"2015-12-09T04:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/emeddoc.org\/?p=715"},"modified":"2015-12-08T23:03:21","modified_gmt":"2015-12-09T04:03:21","slug":"c-spine-clearance-among-children-5-years-or-younger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emeddoc.org\/?p=715","title":{"rendered":"C-Spine Clearance among children 5 years or younger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You can imagine how could be difficult to clear C-spin of\u00a0 4 years old child after a MVC? Pretty scary! J Trauma Acute Care Surg published study that Absence of clinical findings reliably excludes unstable cervical spine injuries in children 5 years or younger. This study was a a retrospective study among\u00a02,972 preelementary trauma patients from 1998 to 2010. Twenty-two (0.74%) had confirmed cervical spine injuries. All patients had clinical findings suggestive of or diagnostic for cervical spine injury; 18 (82%) had abnormal neurological examination result, 2 (9%) had torticollis, and 2 (9%) had neck pain. They Recommend to reserve CT for symptomatic patients.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/25909413\">Link to article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You can imagine how could be difficult to clear C-spin of\u00a0 4 years old child after a MVC? Pretty scary! J Trauma Acute Care Surg published study that Absence of clinical findings reliably excludes unstable cervical spine injuries in children 5 years or younger. This study was a a retrospective study among\u00a02,972 preelementary trauma patients [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-trauma"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/emeddoc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/emeddoc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/emeddoc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emeddoc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emeddoc.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=715"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/emeddoc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":719,"href":"https:\/\/emeddoc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715\/revisions\/719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/emeddoc.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emeddoc.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emeddoc.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}