Table 5.

A list of specific injuries that would carry a nonoperative or indeterminate recommendation from the SLICS algorithm, which would otherwise be treated surgically based on commonly accepted surgical indications in the available evidence [10, 12, 13, 26, 27, 31, 32, 36, 40]

Example injury	Total SLIC Score
Burst fracture (2), with a nerve root injury (1), with or without continuous cord compression (+1)	3-4
Complete (2) or incomplete (3) spinal cord injury with indeterminate DLC injury (1)	3-4
Compression fracture (1) with a complete (2) or incomplete (3) spinal cord injury	3-4
DLC injury (2) with severe kyphosis	2
DLC injury (2) with nerve root (1) or complete spinal cord injury (2)	3-4
Floating lateral mass (compression = 1, DLC injury = 2), with or without a nerve root injury	3-4
Other facet fractures without observed distraction/translation/rotation components, and with varying degrees of neurological deficit	1-4

SLICS = Subaxial Injury Classification and Severity Scale; DLC = discoligamentous complex.