Comparison of Three Prehospital Cervical Spine Protocols for Missed Injuries
Introduction: We wanted to compare 3 existing emergency medical services (EMS) immobilization protocols: the Prehospital Trauma Life Support (PHTLS, mechanism-based); the Domeier protocol (parallels the National Emergency X-Radiography Utilization Study [NEXUS] criteria); and the Hankins’ criteria (...
Main Authors: | Rick Hong, Molly Meenan, Erin Prince, Ronald Murphy, Caitlin Tambussi, Rick Rohrbach, Brigitte M Baumann |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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eScholarship Publishing, University of California
2014-07-01
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Series: | Western Journal of Emergency Medicine |
Online Access: | http://escholarship.org/uc/item/6497n33w |
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