C-SPINE CLEARANCE AND ELEVATION OF HOB

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Even if full spine precautions (until cleared), could you safely place a patient in reverse T-burg, getting the benefit of "elevating HOB" essentially and theoretically decrease risk of aspiration?



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From: Coimbra, Raul <rcoimbra at ucsd.edu>
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Our c-spine precautions protocol allows 30 degree head of the bed elevation. Full spine precaution does not.

RC

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Raul Coimbra, MD, PhD, FACS

The Monroe E. Trout Professor of Surgery

Chief, Division of Trauma, Surgical Critical Care, and Burns

University of California San Diego School of Medicine

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Subject: C-SPINE CLEARANCE AND ELEVATION OF HOB


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Along the lines of VAP, is anyone aware of any data that precludes placing the patient in steep reverse Trendelenburg (>30 to 45 degrees) when we are unable to clear the patient's C-spine (and thus elevated HOB), in an effort to decrease aspiration?



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