P-video: Remembering NEXUS criteria

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PV card on Cervical Spine Rules:

Canadian C-spine Rules (CCR)

References

1. Hoffman JR, Wolfson AB, Todd K, Mower WR. Selective cervical spine radiography in blunt trauma: methodology of the National Emergency X-Radiography Utilization Study (NEXUS). Ann Emerg Med. 1998 Oct;32(4):461-9. PubMed PMID: 9774931.
2. Hoffman JR, Mower WR, Wolfson AB, Todd KH, Zucker MI. Validity of a set of clinical criteria to rule out injury to the cervical spine in patients with blunt trauma. National Emergency X-Radiography Utilization Study Group. N Engl J Med. 2000 Jul 13;343(2):94-9. Erratum in: N Engl J Med 2001 Feb 8;344(6):464. PubMed PMID: 10891516.
3. Stiell IG, Clement CM, McKnight RD, Brison R, Schull MJ, Rowe BH, Worthington JR, Eisenhauer MA, Cass D, Greenberg G, MacPhail I, Dreyer J, Lee JS, Bandiera G, Reardon M, Holroyd B, Lesiuk H, Wells GA. The Canadian C-spine rule versus the NEXUS low-risk criteria in patients with trauma. N Engl J Med. 2003 Dec 25;349(26):2510-8. PubMed PMID: 14695411.

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P-video: How to remember the GCS scoring

In this inaugural P-video, Dr. Jeremy Faust gives us a quick way to remember how keep the maximum subscores of the Glasgow Coma Scale straight. There's verbal, motor, and eyes. Which has a max score of 4, 5, and 6?

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New video series: P-Videos by Dr. Jeremy Faust

Welcome to the blog Dr. Jeremy Faust, who is currently an emergency medicine resident from Mount Sinai Hospital and Elmhurst Hospital Center. He's a frequent contributor to ACEP News, a proud proponent of Free Open Access Medical Education (#FOAMed), and a classical musician and producer. We extremely lucky to have Jeremy join our ALiEM blog team.

What are P-Videos?

Paucis Videos (paucis means "few" or "brief" in Latin) are short video-based educational pearls for the practicing physician with a focus on Emergency Medicine and Critical Care. The videos are meant to be extremely short so that they can be easily referred to at any time. These videos build upon concept of brevity with the Paucis Verbis ("in a few words" in Latin) cards, which provide condensed nuggets of clinical information on a 4x6 inch index card.

The P-videos take it up a notch by covering such items as:

• Medical mnemonics
• Instructional videos
• "Tricks of the trade"
• Rapid-fire journal reviews

Enjoy and please suggest topics and provide us with your feedback!