Learning from the dead: improving safety while placing unconscious trauma patients in various lateral positions
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Background The unconscious trauma patient with a possible unstable spinal injury constitutes a clinical challenge. To protect the unintubated airway, some guidelines [1,2] recommend that the patient be turned into a lateral position, e.g. the Recovery Position (RP) [1] or the Lateral Trauma Position (LTP) [2]. Other lateral positions have also been proposed, as the HAINES position [3] and variations thereof. However, moving the patient may cause secondary neurological injury. The aim of this study was to explore how much motion lateral position techniques produce in an unstable cervical spine injury.
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