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Determines which patients require chest imaging after blunt trauma.

Blunt chest trauma decision making.

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Graham Walker, MD, is an emergency physician practicing in San Francisco, California. Dr. Walker attended medical school at the Stanford University School of Medicine and then trained in emergency medicine at St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital Center in New York City, where he was Chief Resident. He returned to the west coast as a Medical Simulation fellow and attending in Stanford’s emergency department. More relevant, of course, is that Dr. Walker is the creator and developer of MDCalc and remains active in content and calculator development, along with our many other endeavors as President of MD Aware, LLC (MDCalc’s parent company).

Graham Walker, MD

The NEXUS Chest Decision Instrument for Blunt Chest Trauma aids in the decision making process for imaging patients with blunt chest trauma.

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