Pediatric Cervical Spine Clearance: A Consensus Statement and Algorithm from the Pediatric Cervical Spine Clearance Working Group

Affiliations

• ¹ Orthopedic Center for Children, St. Christopher's Hospital for Children, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
• ² Department of Orthopedic Surgery, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland.
• ³ Center for Orthopedics, Arnold Palmer Hospital, Orlando, Florida.
• ⁴ Department of Orthopedic Surgery (P.M.P.), Drexel University College of Medicine (D.J.P., and K.S.M.), Hahnemann University Hospital, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
• ⁵ Division of Emergency Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, The Ohio State University College of Medicine, and Nationwide Children's Hospital, Columbus, Ohio.
• ⁶ Nemours/Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children, Wilmington, Delaware.
• ⁷ Department of Neurological Surgery, University of Utah, Primary Children's Hospital, Salt Lake City, Utah.
• ⁸ Department of Neurosurgery, Columbia University, Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital of NewYork-Presbyterian, New York, NY.
• ⁹ Division of Pediatric Surgery, Department of Surgery (A.C.A.), Departments of Radiology (T.N.B., and J.M.J.) and Neurological Surgery and Pediatrics (B.P.B.), and Division of Emergency Medicine, Department of Pediatrics (J.-A.O.N.), University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, Dallas, Texas.
• ¹⁰ Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Children's Mercy and University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine, Kansas City, Missouri.
• ¹¹ Department of Orthopedics, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California.
• ¹² Division of Orthopedic Surgery, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
• ¹³ Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee.
• ¹⁴ Shriners Hospitals for Children, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
• ¹⁵ Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Children, Dallas, Texas.
• ¹⁶ Department of Orthopedic Surgery, The Children's Hospital at Montefiore, Bronx, New York.
• ¹⁷ Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota.
• ¹⁸ Section of Emergency Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas.
• ¹⁹ Department of Orthopedic Surgery, University of Tennessee - Campbell Clinic and Le Bonheur Children's Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee.
• ²⁰ Department of Orthopedics, Rady Children's Hospital and University of California-San Diego Medical Center, San Diego, California.