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Road bike accidents involving cervical fractures presenting as cardiac arrest: a report of two cases
We present two cases in which elderly male recreational cyclists suffered from cervical fractures and coinciding injuries of the spinal cord that subsequently led to cardiac arrest. Based on reports from eye witnesses and due to the low impact nature of the crashes, the two patients were initially c...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6615281/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31287029 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13049-019-0641-3 |
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author | Kabell Nissen, Anne Marie Gramstrup Nielsen, Louise Mikkelsen, Søren Craveiro Brøchner, Anne |
author_facet | Kabell Nissen, Anne Marie Gramstrup Nielsen, Louise Mikkelsen, Søren Craveiro Brøchner, Anne |
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description | We present two cases in which elderly male recreational cyclists suffered from cervical fractures and coinciding injuries of the spinal cord that subsequently led to cardiac arrest. Based on reports from eye witnesses and due to the low impact nature of the crashes, the two patients were initially considered as having cardiac arrest before falling of their bikes. The spinal cord injuries triggering cardiac arrest were acknowledged with delay, as the primary eliciting cause was considered cardiac disease in conjunction with all-out exercise. We suggest that increased focus should be made on possible cervical injuries even following low energy crashes in road cycling. |
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spelling | pubmed-66152812019-07-18 Road bike accidents involving cervical fractures presenting as cardiac arrest: a report of two cases Kabell Nissen, Anne Marie Gramstrup Nielsen, Louise Mikkelsen, Søren Craveiro Brøchner, Anne Scand J Trauma Resusc Emerg Med Case Report We present two cases in which elderly male recreational cyclists suffered from cervical fractures and coinciding injuries of the spinal cord that subsequently led to cardiac arrest. Based on reports from eye witnesses and due to the low impact nature of the crashes, the two patients were initially considered as having cardiac arrest before falling of their bikes. The spinal cord injuries triggering cardiac arrest were acknowledged with delay, as the primary eliciting cause was considered cardiac disease in conjunction with all-out exercise. We suggest that increased focus should be made on possible cervical injuries even following low energy crashes in road cycling. BioMed Central 2019-07-08 /pmc/articles/PMC6615281/ /pubmed/31287029 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13049-019-0641-3 Text en © The Author(s). 2019 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated. |
spellingShingle | Case Report Kabell Nissen, Anne Marie Gramstrup Nielsen, Louise Mikkelsen, Søren Craveiro Brøchner, Anne Road bike accidents involving cervical fractures presenting as cardiac arrest: a report of two cases |
title | Road bike accidents involving cervical fractures presenting as cardiac arrest: a report of two cases |
title_full | Road bike accidents involving cervical fractures presenting as cardiac arrest: a report of two cases |
title_fullStr | Road bike accidents involving cervical fractures presenting as cardiac arrest: a report of two cases |
title_full_unstemmed | Road bike accidents involving cervical fractures presenting as cardiac arrest: a report of two cases |
title_short | Road bike accidents involving cervical fractures presenting as cardiac arrest: a report of two cases |
title_sort | road bike accidents involving cervical fractures presenting as cardiac arrest: a report of two cases |
topic | Case Report |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6615281/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31287029 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13049-019-0641-3 |
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