Safe management of acute cervical spine injuries
- Cervical spine injuries are frequent and often caused by a blunt trauma mechanism. They can have severe consequences, with a high mortality rate and a high rate of neurological lesions.Diagnosis is a three-step process: 1) risk assessment according to the history and clinical features, guided by a clinical decision rule such as the Canadian C-Spine rule; 2) imaging if needed; 3) classification of the injury according to different classification systems in the different regions of the cervical spine.The urgency of treatment is dependent on the presence of a neurological lesion and/or instability. The treatment strategy depends on the morphological criteria as defined by the classification.
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| Author: | Philipp SchleicherORCiDGND, Andreas PingelGND, Frank KandzioraGND |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-468519 |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1302/2058-5241.3.170076 |
| ISSN: | 2058-5241 |
| ISSN: | 2396-7544 |
| Pubmed Id: | https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29951274 |
| Parent Title (English): | EFORT open reviews |
| Publisher: | The British Editorial Society of Bone & Joint Surgery |
| Place of publication: | London |
| Document Type: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Year of Completion: | 2018 |
| Date of first Publication: | 2018/05/21 |
| Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
| Release Date: | 2018/07/03 |
| Tag: | cervical spine; trauma |
| Volume: | 3 |
| Issue: | 5 |
| Page Number: | 11 |
| First Page: | 347 |
| Last Page: | 357 |
| Note: | Open access: This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed. |
| HeBIS-PPN: | 435675028 |
| Institutes: | Medizin / Medizin |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | 6 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften / 61 Medizin und Gesundheit / 610 Medizin und Gesundheit |
| Sammlungen: | Universitätspublikationen |
| Licence (English): |  Creative Commons - Namensnennung-Nicht kommerziell 4.0 |
