Clearing the Cervical Spine in blunt trauma patients with head injury: Guidelines are under revision for identifying c-spine injuries after trauma. The new guideline does state that MR imaging is no longer required to clear the c-spine as the negative predictive values for CT are 98.9 percent for ligament injury and 100 percent for unstable c-spine injury.
Clearing the Cervical Spine in blunt trauma patients with head injury: Guidelines are under revision for identifying c-spine injuries after trauma. The new guideline does state that MR imaging is no longer required to clear the c-spine as the negative predictive values for CT are 98.9 percent for ligament injury and 100 percent for unstable c-spine injury.
