Paediatric scores and calculators
5 paediatric instruments, grouped by what they do. Each carries its scoring formula in full, published clinically important thresholds where they exist, and its copyright status.
Conditions covered
Adolescent idiopathic scoliosis · Adult degenerative scoliosis · Anterior interosseous nerve palsy · Congenital scoliosis · Generalised joint hypermobility · Growth arrest · Growth plate injury · Hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos syndrome · Hypermobility spectrum disorder · Irritable hip · Neuromuscular scoliosis · Paediatric elbow fracture · Paediatric fracture · Paediatric limp · Physeal bar · Physeal fracture · Pulseless hand after elbow injury · Recurrent joint instability · Scoliosis · Septic arthritis · Supracondylar humerus fracture · Transient synovitis
Clinical calculator2
- Beighton9 itemsBeighton Score for Joint HypermobilityThe Beighton score measures generalised joint hypermobility with nine bedside manoeuvres scored one point each, giving a total from 0 to 9, where 4 or more is the conventional adult threshold and 6 or more the threshold in children.
- Cobb AngleCobb Angle for ScoliosisThe Cobb angle measures the magnitude of a scoliotic curve as the angle between the superior endplate of the upper end vertebra and the inferior endplate of the lower end vertebra, where 10 degrees or more defines scoliosis and 45 to 50 degrees is the conventional threshold for discussing surgery.
Classification system2
- Gartland2 itemsGartland Classification of Supracondylar Humerus FracturesThe Gartland classification grades extension-type supracondylar humerus fractures in children as type I when non-displaced, type II when angulated with the posterior cortex intact, type III when completely displaced with no cortical contact, and type IV when the fracture is unstable in both flexion and extension — a diagnosis that can only be made under fluoroscopy in theatre.
- Salter-Harris3 itemsSalter-Harris Classification of Physeal FracturesThe Salter-Harris classification grades fractures involving the growth plate into five types, from a fracture through the physis alone (type I) to a crush injury of the physis (type V), according to whether the fracture line also involves the metaphysis, the epiphysis, or both.