Pragmatic Strategy Empowering Paramedics to Assess Low-Risk Trauma Patients With the Canadian C-Spine Rule and Selectively Transport Them Without Immobilization: Protocol for a Stepped-Wedge Cluster Randomized Trial

BACKGROUND: Each year, half a million patients with a potential neck (c-spine) injury are transported to Ontario emergency departments (EDs). Less than 1.0% (1/100) of these patients have a neck bone fracture. Even less (1/200, 0.5%) have a spinal cord injury or nerve damage. Currently, paramedics t...

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Autores principales: Vaillancourt, Christian, Charette, Manya, Taljaard, Monica, Thavorn, Kednapa, Hall, Elizabeth, McLeod, Brent, Fergusson, Dean, Brehaut, Jamie, Graham, Ian, Calder, Lisa, Ramsay, Tim, Tugwell, Peter, Kelly, Peter, Cheskes, Sheldon, Saskin, Refik, Plint, Amy, Osmond, Martin, Macarthur, Colin, Straus, Sharon, Rochon, Paula, Prud'homme, Denis, Dahrouge, Simone, Marlin, Susan, Stiell, Ian G
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: JMIR Publications 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7296410/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32348267
http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/16966

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