Table 1:

Comparison of screening criteria for BCVI that have been used in the pediatric population. These guidelines and scoring systems encompass different risk factors with the goal of aiding in the decision-making process of when to pursue vessel imaging to screen for BCVI. Please refer to references for specifics on each of the different scores, this table attempts to visually display the risk factors included in them.

	EAST²⁷	Denver²⁸	Memphis³⁰	Utah²⁹	McGovern³¹
Neurologic abnormality unexplained by imaging	x	x	x
Focal neurologic deficit		x		x	x
GCS score of 8 or less	x			x	x
Lefort II or III facial fractures	x	x	x
Petrous bone fracture	x			x	x
Cervical spine fracture	x	x	x
Stroke on imaging		x		x	x
Carotid canal fracture				x	x
Blunt trauma and epistaxis	x
Neck/nose/mouth arterial hemorrhage		x
Anisocoria			x
Cervical bruit		x
Diffuse axonal injury	x
Basilar skull fracture			x
Mechanism of injury (motor-vehicle or automobile-pedestrian accident)					x
High energy mechanism with associated features^a		x

Mandible fracture, complex skull fracture/basilar skull fracture/occipital condyle fracture, DAI and GCS score of less than 6, near- hanging with anoxic brain injury, clothesline type injury, scalp degloving, TBI with thoracic injury, thoracic vascular injury, blunt cardiac rupture