Hot Off The Press: PECARN Cervical Spine Injury Rule

In this episode we talk with Dr. Julie Leonard about the PECARN C-spine Rule that was just officially published! Dr. Leonard is the senior author of the study and walks us through the findings, why its important, and how she uses the rule in her own clinical practice.

Host:

Dr. Julia Magaña, Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at UC Davis

Guest:

Dr. Julie Leonard, MD, MPH, Professor of Pediatrics at Nationwide Children’s Hospital and the Ohio State University College of Medicine.

Resources:

prediction rule for cervical spine imaging of children presenting to the emergency department with blunt trauma: a multicentre prospective observational study.

EMSC Innovation and Improvement Center PEAK toolkits

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Thank you to the UC Davis Department of Emergency Medicine for supporting this podcast and to Orlando Magaña at OM Productions for audio production services.