Assessment for Cervical Spine Injury
- NICE recommend using the indications given in the Canadian C-spine rule to determine whether to maintain full in-line immobilisation.
- Using the Canadian-C spine rule Greg is deemed to be high risk (due to dangerous mechanism).
- Therefore you should maintain full in-line spinal immobilisation.
- This is also used to determine if radiography should be used, in this case the answer is yes.
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