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| ==Background==
| | #REDIRECT[[Cervical spine clearance]] |
| *C-Spine management unclear in the obtunded adult patient with blunt trauma after negative CT C-spine.
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| **EAST- Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma- performed systematic review in 2015. <ref>Patel MB, et al. Cervical spine collar clearance in the obtunded adult blunt trauma patient: a systematic review and practice management guideline from the Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma. J Trauma Acute Care Surg. 2015 Feb;78(2):430-41</ref>
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| ***Review included 1800 obtunded patients generally defined as GCS<13 with negative CT c-spine using <3mm axial cuts.
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| ***Of 1800 patients, 176 patients with abnormal MRI.
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| ***0/176 had unstable C-spine injury.
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| ***EAST guideline notes "we conditionally recommend cervical collar removal after a negative high-quality C-spine CT scan result alone" <ref>https://www.east.org/education/practice-management-guidelines/cervical-spine-collar-clearance-in-the-obtunded-adult-blunt-trauma-patient</ref>
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| ==See Also==
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| *[[Blunt neck trauma]]
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| *[[C-Spine X-Ray]]
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| *[[C-Spine (Canadian Rule)]]
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| *[[C-Spine (NEXUS)]]
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| ==References==
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