Manikam, Rishya, Balakrishnan, Sri Latha, Choon S.K, David
There are many guidelines and rules which are available as a guide for clinicians to use in the assessment for the need of lateral cervical spine x-rays(LCX) in trauma. Despite this, the number of LCX done in Accident And Emergency Department are still alarmingly high.The main reason being identified was due to overdoing of the LCX for the alert, stable and low risk patients with blunt injury to the neck by the emergency doctors.These elobarous figure can be reduce by utilisation of CCSR should reduce the number of LCX requested by the emergency doctors.The reduction of this LCX request is...
There are many guidelines and rules which are available as a guide for clinicians to use in the assessment for the need of lateral cervical spine x-ra...