The management of cervical spine injuries remains a critical aspect of trauma care, with immobilisation techniques playing a pivotal role in mitigating secondary neurological damage. Current practices ...

OBJECTIVES: To describe the occurrence and severity of pressure ulcers, indentation marks and pain from the extrication collar combined with headblocks. Furthermore, the influence of time, injury ...

December 12, 2007 (Aliso Viejo, California) – Ossur, an emerging leader in the non-invasive orthopaedics market following several acquisitions and a period of integration, is pleased to announce that ...

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 ...

Discontinue use of back braces and cervical collars when possible and provide early surgical stabilization when indicated. These are a few recommendations from updated guidelines on the early ...

You’ve seen it in the movies and on TV: Someone hurt in a car wreck is strapped to a rigid backboard and rushed to the hospital by ambulance or aboard a rescue helicopter. That’s how firefighters, ...

All firefighter and emergency medical technician courses discuss lifting and moving patients with various methods and devices. Most of these methods are taught based on a patient location close to the ...