WithdrawnNot Applicable

Prospective Pilot Study Validating the Canadian C-Spine Rule Pre-hospital

Stopped: Not feasible

Belgium0Started 2011-01

Plain-language summary

This study is designed to evaluate the safety, level of performance and level of comfort with the Canadian C-Spine rule in a prehospital setting by emergency medicine undergraduates.

Who can participate

Age range18 Years – 65 Years

SexALL

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Inclusion Criteria: * Alert, stable, adult patients presenting with an acute possible injury to the cervical spine * Alert: GCS ≥ 14 * Stable: * systolic blood pressure ≥ 90 mmHg * respiratory frequency 12 - 20 / min * adult ≥ 18 years old * Acute: ≤ 4 * Possible injury to the cervical spine: * posterior neck pain following any mechanism * no neck pain but visible injury above the clavicles * no neck pain or visible injury above the clavicles but a mechanism that indicates a cervical spine injury Exclusion Criteria: * Acute paralysis (quadriplegia, paraplegia) * Penetrating trauma to the neck * Patients with known vertebral disease (ankylosing spondylitis, rheumatoid arthritis, spinal stenosis, or previous cervical spine surgery) * Pregnancy

What they're measuring

Missed cervical spine injuries and fractures

Timeframe: At the first visit to the emergency department until 30 days after inclusion

Trial details

NCT IDNCT01278511

SponsorKU Leuven

Sponsor typeOTHER

Study typeINTERVENTIONAL

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