Performance of the Canadian CT Head Rule and the New Orleans Criteria for predicting any traumatic intracranial injury on computed tomography in a United States Level I trauma center.

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Published in Acad Emerg Med on January 01, 2012

Authors

Linda Papa1, Ian G Stiell, Catherine M Clement, Artur Pawlowicz, Andrew Wolfram, Carolina Braga, Sameer Draviam, George A Wells

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Emergency Medicine, Orlando Regional Medical Center, Orlando, FL, USA. lpstat@aol.com

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