Risks associated with magnetic resonance imaging and cervical collar in comatose, blunt trauma patients with negative comprehensive cervical spine computed tomography and no apparent spinal deficit

Critical Care

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2008, Pages

  Dunham, C Michael ^a   Brocker, Brian P ^a   Collier, B David ^a   Gemmel, David J ^a  

^a ST ELIZABETH HEALTH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLUNT TRAUMA; BRAIN INJURY; CERVICAL SPINE; COMATOSE PATIENT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE SEVERITY; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; HYPOXIA; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; LONG TERM CARE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ORTHOSIS; PATIENT POSITIONING; PATIENT TRANSPORT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; RADIATION HAZARD; RADIATION INJURY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SPINE INJURY; SPINE INSTABILITY; SPINE RADIOGRAPHY; VENTILATOR ASSOCIATED PNEUMONIA; BRACE; COMA; HEAD INJURY; METHODOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; REVIEW;

BRACES; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; COMA; HEAD INJURIES, CLOSED; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RISK FACTORS; SPINAL INJURIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 48749097801     PISSN: 13648535     EISSN: 1466609X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/cc6957     Document Type: Article

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