Immobilizing the spines of shooting and stabbing victims before they are taken to the hospital -- standard procedure in Maryland and some other parts of the country -- appears to double the risk of ...

Objectives: The Canadian C-Spine Rule for imaging of the cervical spine was developed for use by physicians. We believe that nurses in the emergency department could use this rule to clinically clear ...

A study analyzing the practice of spinal motion restriction (SMR) between 2009 and 2019 has been published in the July issue of Academic Emergency Medicine (AEM), the peer-reviewed journal of the ...

Spinal immobilization was first discussed in emergency medicine in the late 1960s, and by 1984, New York State protocol required the collar and backboard combination. An update in 2008 advised medics ...

Maintaining manual in-line stabilization and performing cervical immobilization for spine are skills we have been taught from day one of our EMS careers, no matter what level we practice. It has ...

Immobilizing the spines of shooting and stabbing victims before they are taken to the hospital — standard procedure in Maryland and some other parts of the country — appears to double the risk of ...