Current paramedic training includes assessing the patient for spinal trauma before placing them in cervical protection. First responders are being taught not to use cervical collars at all.

Soft collars are unlikely to help manage more serious neck injuries. One study looked at the use of soft cervical collars on 50 patients with ... spinal fractures, and trauma injuries.

The Mayo Clinic study addressed the ongoing concern that occipital pressure ulcers are well-known complications for trauma patients wearing cervical collars, and assessed the effects of four ...

Because clinicians fear missing occult cervical-spine injuries, they obtain cervical radiographs for nearly all patients who present with blunt trauma ... a soft cervical collar, which he removed ...

Discontinue use of back braces and cervical collars ... Trauma Quality Programs. The 87-page document covers the initial spine evaluation, classification, and management of injury, care of the ...

For alert patients with trauma ... no cervical-spine injury if they met all four of the following criteria at 14 days: mild neck pain or none, mild neck-movement restriction or none, neck collar ...

The findings, published in January issue of the Journal of Trauma, suggest that ... often far from the spine, yet patients are routinely put in a cervical collar and secured to a board, the ...

We included articles that reported on a cohort of patients who experienced blunt trauma and for whom clinically important cervical spine injury detectable by diagnostic imaging was the differential ...

The findings, published in January issue of the Journal of Trauma, suggest that ... often far from the spine, yet patients are routinely put in a cervical collar and secured to a board, the ...