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

Catholic University (KU) of Leuven

Status: Withdrawn

Conditions: Injury of Cervical Spine; Cervical Spine Fractures

Treatments: Other: Canadian C-Spine rule

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01278511

S52940

Details and patient eligibility

About

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.

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 65 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

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

Trial design

Primary purpose: Diagnostic

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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0 participants in 1 patient group

Canadian C-Spine Rule

Experimental group

Treatment:

Other: Canadian C-Spine rule