Nutbeam, T. Fenwick R, May B, Stassen W, Smith JE, Wallis L, Dayson M, Shippen
J.https://sjtrem.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13049-021- 00919-w
Extrication studied: Self-extrication.
Self-extrication is the process by which a patient is instructed to leave their vehicle and completes this with minimal or no assistance from the rescue services
This study considers the roles of cervical spine collars and instructions and their effect on spinal movement during self- extrication. Four groups are compared: i) No instructions and no cervical collar, ii) No instructions, with cervical collar, iii) With instructions and no collar, and iv) With instructions and with collar.
Findings
What we learnt:
Self-extrication with no instructions but with a collar resulted in the smallest spinal movement of the four self-extrication approaches used.