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Evaluation of the safety of C-spine clearance by paramedics: design and methodology

BACKGROUND: Canadian Emergency Medical Services annually transport 1.3 million patients with potential neck injuries to local emergency departments. Less than 1% of those patients have a c-spine fracture and even less (0.5%) have a spinal cord injury. Most injuries occur before the arrival of parame...

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Autores principales: Vaillancourt, Christian, Charette, Manya, Kasaboski, Ann, Maloney, Justin, Wells, George A, Stiell, Ian G
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3040719/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21284880
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-227X-11-1