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Emergency medicine

five low-risk criteria, such as no midline tenderness and no intoxication, under which cervical spine imaging is judged unnecessary after blunt trauma.

In emergency medicine, NEXUS criteria refers to five low-risk criteria, such as no midline tenderness and no intoxication, under which cervical spine imaging is judged unnecessary after blunt trauma. This meaning comes from Hoffman (2000) in New England Journal of Medicine.[1]

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Hoffman, J. R., Mower, W. R., Wolfson, A. B., Todd, K. H., & Zucker, M. I. (2000). Validity of a Set of Clinical Criteria to Rule Out Injury to the Cervical Spine in Patients with Blunt Trauma. New England Journal of Medicine, 343(2), 94-99. https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm200007133430203

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