NEXUS Low Risk Criteria

[nemo]

So how many of your services out there allow for the paramedic or emt-b to clear c-spine in the field using the NEXUS LRC or a variation on this that your EMS director designed.


Nexus Criteria


My employers have all had something resembling this included in our protocols...

 

[ffemt8978]

This was covered here a few weeks ago under To Backboard or Not to Backboard

A few posts down you'll find our criteria for clearing c-spine in the field, which is similar to nexus

 

[hfdff422]

I read this and it seems to be for use directly by the physicians. (the nexus criteria)