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He has chest pain and is fully alert, no intoxication, no distracting injury, no chest-wall tenderness, age is under 60, and rapid deceleration is yes. Run the NEXUS Chest criteria and tell me if a chest x-ray is indicated."},{"title":"Fall from height triage","prompt":"Patient fell from a 25-foot ladder. She has chest-wall tenderness on exam and a distracting injury to her wrist. No chest pain complaint, not intoxicated, she's 55 years old so age over 60 is false, and altered mental status is absent. Apply the NEXUS Chest rule — does she need chest imaging?"},{"title":"Low-risk blunt trauma screen","prompt":"I need to know if a chest x-ray can be safely skipped for a blunt trauma patient: no chest pain, no distracting injury, no chest-wall tenderness, not intoxicated, age under 60, no rapid deceleration mechanism, and mental status is normal. What does the NEXUS Chest instrument say?"}],"resultDescription":"Returns whether chest radiography is indicated or not indicated based on the NEXUS Chest rule: if any of the seven criteria flags is true the instrument indicates chest x-ray is required; only if all seven are false is the patient considered low-risk and chest x-ray not indicated. Response reflects the Rodriguez 2011 derivation logic only.","failureModes":["Missing any of the seven required boolean query parameters returns a validation error","Supplying non-boolean values for the flags causes a schema rejection","Attempting to use this instrument for pediatric patients under 14 years old is outside the derivation population and may produce a warning or unsupported response","Confusing this endpoint with NEXUS C-spine (Hoffman 2000) or NEXUS Chest CT instruments returns valid but contextually incorrect results for those use cases","Network or payment authorization failure returns an HTTP 402 or connectivity error"],"whenToPreferThis":"Use this endpoint when you need to apply the Rodriguez 2011 NEXUS Chest plain radiography rule specifically — not the NEXUS C-spine rule, not a Chest CT decision rule, and not any other chest imaging instrument. It is appropriate for blunt trauma patients over 14 years old when a caller has already assessed and assigned the seven clinical criteria. Prefer this over manual lookup when automating trauma triage workflows or building clinical decision support agents that need a programmatic, auditable application of the NEXUS Chest instrument.","instructions":null,"reviewSummary":null,"reviewSummaryHighlights":null,"reviewSummaryConcerns":null,"reviewSummaryGeneratedAt":null,"activationCount":0,"lastUsedAt":null,"lastSuccessfullyRanAt":null,"lastHealthCheckAt":"2026-09-15T01:19:45.942Z","isFirstParty":false}