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Prehospital Spinal Immobilization

Andrew J Bowman trauma-list@trauma.org
Tue, 16 Jul 2002 19:15:27 -0500 

Try this article, it looked at 2 EMS systems, 1 immobilized based on
mechanism of injury the other did NO immobilization what so ever.

Andrew Bowman

Out-of-hospital Spinal Immobilization: Its effect on Neurologic Injury,
Academic Emergency Medicine 1998;5:214-219

----- Original Message -----
From: "Bob St. Martin" <bobstmartin@plymouth-ems.com>
To: <trauma-list@trauma.org>
Sent: Tuesday, July 16, 2002 6:38 PM
Subject: Prehospital Spinal Immobilization


>
> Does anyone on the list know where I may find statistics that show a
> decrease (or lack thereof)in neurological deficits from spinal injuries
> due to the advent of prehospital spinal immobilization?
>