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To collar or not to collar. Views of pre-hospital emergency care providers on immobilisation without cervical collars: a focus group study

BACKGROUND: Spinal cord injury (SCI) is a rare event, with high numbers of patients unnecessarily immobilised with no potential benefit based on limited evidence from the 1950s and 1960s. Contemporary opinion now challenges the notion that traditional immobilisation prevents movement and protects th...

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Autores principales: Thompson, Lee, Shaw, Gary, Bates, Charlotte, Hawkins, Christopher, McClelland, Graham, McMeekin, Peter
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The College of Paramedics 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8312363/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34335099
http://dx.doi.org/10.29045/14784726.2021.6.6.1.38