Field-side and prehospital management of the spine-injured athlete

Current Sports Medicine Reports

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 50-55

  Sanchez, Anthony R ^a   Sugalski, Matthew T ^a   LaPrade, Robert F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CERVICAL SPINE; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EQUIPMENT; HUMAN; IMMOBILIZATION; INJURY; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; NECK INJURY; PATIENT TRANSPORT; PROTECTIVE CLOTHING; RESUSCITATION; REVIEW; SPINE INJURY; SPORT INJURY; SPORTS MEDICINE; SUPINE POSITION; UNCONSCIOUSNESS;

ATHLETIC INJURIES; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; HUMANS; IMMOBILIZATION; NECK INJURIES; PROTECTIVE CLOTHING; RESUSCITATION; SPINAL INJURIES; SPORTS EQUIPMENT; SPORTS MEDICINE; SUPINE POSITION; TRANSPORTATION OF PATIENTS; UNCONSCIOUSNESS;

EID: 33745554362     PISSN: 1537890X     EISSN: 15378918     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.CSMR.0000306072.44520.22     Document Type: Article

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