SAQ 1831 – Paediatric elbow injury and cervical spine clearance

A 10-year-old girl is brought to ED with a sore arm after falling off a wall. She has marked swelling and pain in the right elbow and a graze on the left forehead. Her lateral elbow X-ray is shown below.

List three features required to clinically clear the neck without radiological imaging.

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Name two potential neurological complications of this injury and how you would test for each.

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Name three other possible complications of this elbow injury.

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