Motion in the unstable cervical spine during hospital bed transfers

Journal of Trauma - Injury, Infection and Critical Care

Volumn 69, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 432-436

  Conrad, Bryan P ^a   Rechtine, Glenn ^b   Weight, Mark ^b   Clarke, Joanne ^a   Horodyski, Marybeth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Cervical spine instability; Hospital transfers; Manual transfer; Motion analysis; On3; Spine injury

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BODY MOVEMENT; CADAVER; CERVICAL SPINE INJURY; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; HOSPITAL BED; HUMAN; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL INSTRUMENTATION; PATIENT TRANSPORT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSOR;

EID: 77955905934     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: 15298809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/TA.0b013e3181e89f58     Document Type: Article

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