Pediatric Cervical Spine Clearance: A Multicenter Prospective Observational Study

Status unconfirmed

Conditions studied: Cervical Spine Fracture

In brief

A prospective multicenter observational study, led by Dr. Katie Russell of Intermountain Primary Children's Hospital, that will examine the sensitivity, specificity, negative, and positive predictive values of CT scan and plain films in diagnosing cervical spine injury that requires treatment. This study is funded by the Primary Children's Hospital foundation.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT05608460

Run by

University of Utah

People needed

15700

Starts

2022-08-15

Expected to finish

2025-08-15

Last updated by the study team

2022-11-08

Who can join

Age: any, up to 17. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Any participant less than 18 years old after blunt trauma
• Seen by trauma service
• With cervical spine imaging (XR, CT, or MRI)

You may not qualify if…

• CT scan from outside facility is poor quality and not repeated (<63-channel, cuts >3mm, no reformats, motion artifact)
• No radiology over reads by participating institution

Where it is running

• Primary Children's Hospital — Salt Lake City, Utah, United States (enrolling)
• Children's Hospital Los Angeles — Los Angeles, California, United States
• Rady Children's Hospital — San Diego, California, United States
• UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital — San Francisco, California, United States
• Phoenix Children's Hospital — Phoenix, Arizona, United States
• Children's Hospital Colorado — Aurora, Colorado, United States
• Oregon Health and Science University — Portland, Oregon, United States
• UT Southwestern Medical Center — Dallas, Texas, United States
• Lucile Packard Children's Hospital — Stanford, California, United States

Full record on ClinicalTrials.gov

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