Annexure: B
COIDA & RSSA - Indications for MR Imaging of Injury on Duty Patients
Select the appropriate injury, modality and indication. To be used in conjunction with a MRI/CT motivation. Refer also to the document "Guidelines for Imaging of MRI and other studies for Injury on Duty Patients"
| ❑ | Head Injury - Acute (1) (Acute regarded as within first week of date of injury) |
| ❑ | Reduced level of consciousness (1.i.a) |
| ❑ | Neurological deficit (1.i.c) |
| ❑ | Skull or facial bone fractures (1.i.d) |
| ❑ | Head + Cervical Spine Injury – Acute (2) |
| ❑ | CT Spine (bone or joint injury) depending on result spine x-ray (2.ii) |
| ❑ | MRI – in selected cases following a CT (2.iii) |
| ❑ | Rotational axonal injury (2.d) |
| ❑ | Chronic subdural haemorrhage |
| ❑ | Head Injury – long-term sequela (3) |
| ❑ | If convulsions present in semi acute phase, do CT first (3.b) |
| ❑ | Epilepsy (contrast and additional sequences often required) (3.a) |
| ❑ | Long-term structural changes (3.c) |
| ❑ | Bone or joint injury (4.i) |
| ❑ | Neurological signs (nerve root) (5.ii) |
| ❑ | Vertebral body fracture (selected cases) (5.iii) |
| ❑ | Spine – sub acute and long term sequela |
| ❑ | Post-operative assessment (selected cases) (6.iii) |
| ❑ | Other organs/soft tissue |
| ❑ | Complicated fractures and dislocations (10) |
| ❑ | Muscle distal biceps insertion (9) |
| ❑ | Cartilage, tendons, labrum, soft tissue of joints (8.iii.a) |
| ❑ | Planning repair of joints (8.iii.b) |
| ❑ | Knee, elbow, ankle (usually no contrast) (8.iii.d) |
| ❑ | Shoulder, wrist, hip (usually with contrast) (8.iii.c) |
The numbers after the indications refer to the document "Guidelines for Imaging of MRI and other studies for Injury on Duty Patients". The above indications are not exhaustive, and are merely a selection of the more common indications.
