Development and Testing of a Pediatric Cervical Spine Injury Risk Assessment Tool
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Brief summary
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Cervical spine injuries (CSI) are serious, but rare events in children. Spinal precautions (rigid cervical collar and immobilization on a longboard) in the prehospital setting may be beneficial for children with CSI, but are poorly studied. In contrast, spinal precautions for pediatric trauma patients without CSI are common and may be associated with harm. Spinal precautions result in well-documented adverse physical and physiological sequelae. Of substantial concern is that the mere presence of prehospital spinal precautions may lead to a cascade of events that results in the increased use of inappropriate radiographic testing in the emergency department (ED) to evaluate children for CSI and thus an unnecessary, increased exposure to ionizing radiation and lifetime risk of cancer. Most children who receive spinal precautions and/or are imaged for potential CSI, and particularly those imaged with computed tomography (CT), are exposed to potential harm with no demonstrable benefit. Therefore, there is an urgent need to develop a Pediatric CSI Risk Assessment Tool that can be used in the prehospital and ED settings to reduce the number of children who receive prehospital spinal precautions inappropriately and are imaged unnecessarily while identifying all children who are truly at risk for CSI.
Study identification
- NCT ID
- NCT05049330
- Recruitment status
- Completed
- Study type
- Observational
- Phase
- Not listed
- Enrollment
- 22,444 participants
Conditions and interventions
Conditions
Interventions
Not listed
Eligibility (public fields only)
- Age range
- Up to 18 Years
- Sex
- All
- Healthy volunteers
- Healthy volunteers not accepted
This page does not interpret eligibility. Detailed inclusion and exclusion criteria are on the official ClinicalTrials.gov record.
Study timeline
- Start date
- Dec 11, 2018
- Primary completion
- Jun 30, 2023
- Completion
- Jun 30, 2023
- Last update posted
- Apr 14, 2026
2018 – 2023
United States locations
- U.S. sites
- 18
- U.S. states
- 12
- U.S. cities
- 17
| Facility | City | State | ZIP | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Children's Hospital Los Angeles | Los Angeles | California | 90027 | — |
| UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital | Oakland | California | 94609 | — |
| Children's Hospital UC Davis Health | Sacramento | California | 95817 | — |
| Children's Hospital Colorado | Denver | Colorado | 80045 | — |
| Children's National Medical Center | Washington D.C. | District of Columbia | 20310 | — |
| Children's Healthcare of Atlanta | Atlanta | Georgia | 30329 | — |
| Boston Children's Hospital | Boston | Massachusetts | 02115 | — |
| CS Mott Children's Hospital | Ann Arbor | Michigan | 48109 | — |
| Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis | St Louis | Missouri | 63130 | — |
| Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center | Cincinnati | Ohio | 45229 | — |
| Nationwide Children's Hospital | Columbus | Ohio | 43205 | — |
| The Ohio State University | Columbus | Ohio | 43210 | — |
| UT Southwestern Medical Center | Dallas | Pennsylvania | 75235 | — |
| Children's Hospital of Philadelphia | Philadelphia | Pennsylvania | 19104 | — |
| UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh | Pittsburgh | Pennsylvania | 15224 | — |
| Texas Children's Hospital | Houston | Texas | 77030 | — |
| Primary Children's Medical Center | Salt Lake City | Utah | 84113 | — |
| Medical College of Wisconsin | Milwaukee | Wisconsin | 53226 | — |
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