No Neck Zones | PECARN Validation x 2

The JournalFeed podcast for the week of May 20-24, 2024.

These are summaries from just 2 of the 5 articles we cover every week! For access to more, please visit JournalFeed.org for details about becoming a member.

Monday Spoon Feed:

This review article illustrates the evidence-based “no-zone” approach in managing penetrating neck injuries, with a reliance on clinical symptoms as well as multidetector computed tomographic angiography (MDCTA) to mitigate unnecessary invasive tests and negative explorations. 

Friday Spoon Feed:

This multicenter prospective validation study of the PECARN prediction rules for CT imaging of children with blunt abdominal or minor head trauma performed extremely well (all three having NPVs of 100%).