NEXUS_Chest_CT_Decision_Instrument_for_CT_Imaging v.1

NEXUS Chest CT Decision Instrument for CT Imaging identifies blunt trauma patients with clinically significant thoracic injuries.

Therese Lindberg

therese.lindberg@cambio.se

@CambioCDS

To identify blunt trauma patients with clinically significant thoracic injuries.

Series of Yes/No questions as listed. If any criteria are positive, major or minor thoracic injury can NOT be excluded. Use in awake, non-intubated, hemodynamically stable blunt trauma patients ≥15 years old in whom a CT chest is considered as part of the normal diagnostic evaluation.

Do not use in patients that are asleep, intubated or < 15 years old.

1. Rodriguez RM, Langdorf MI, Nishijima D, Baumann BM, Hendey GW, Medak AJ, Raja AS, Allen IE, Mower WR. Derivation and validation of two decision instruments for selective chest CT in blunt trauma: a multicenter prospective observational study (NEXUS Chest CT). PLoS Med. 2015 Oct 6;12(10):e1001883. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1001883. eCollection 2015.

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