1 My emergency department colleagues commonly see 2 clinical problems for which there is a strong need for decision rules: whether to order a computed tomography (CT ... about head and neck imaging ...

Background: The Canadian CT Head Rule was developed to allow physicians to be more selective when ordering computed tomography (CT) imaging for patients with minor head injury. We sought to evaluate ...

To screen for cervical spine injuries such as fractures in the emergency department, the Canadian C-spine rule appears to be more accurate compared with NEXUS, another commonly used rule ...

The CATCH (Canadian assessment of tomography for childhood injury) rules are intended to help standardize the use of CT scans and eliminate those that are unnecessary, he said. Each year ...

Canadian researchers have created new tools to reduce the number of unnecessary computed tomography (CT) scans performed on children each year - rules they hope will become standard across the ...

This new rule complements the widely used Canadian CT Head rule, which applies to patients with disorientation, amnesia or loss of consciousness.