Removing a patient from the spine board: Is the lift and slide safer than the log roll?

Journal of Trauma - Injury, Infection and Critical Care

Volumn 70, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1282-1285

  Horodyski, Marybeth ^a   Conrad, Bryan P ^a   Del Rossi, Gianluca ^b   Dipaola, Christian P ^c   Rechtine, Glenn R ^d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Advanced Trauma Life Support; Patient safety; Spine board removal

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CADAVER; CERVICAL SPINE; ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LIFT AND SLIDE TECHNIQUE; LOG ROLL PROCEDURE; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT LIFTING; PATIENT TRANSPORT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINE INSTABILITY;

BIOMECHANICS; CADAVER; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; HUMANS; IMMOBILIZATION; LIFTING; MOTION; ORTHOPEDIC EQUIPMENT; SPINAL INJURIES; TRANSPORTATION OF PATIENTS;

EID: 79955749664     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: 15298809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/TA.0b013e31820ff2bc     Document Type: Article

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