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A tonic for the C-spine collar haterade

Posted by Matthew Mac Partlin on Friday, February 24, 2017, In : Conferences, courses & events 

I've been drinking from that fountain. Semi rigid c-spine collars have been receiving a drubbing in recent times (Search the c-spine collar tag over to the right of this page). And with good reason, I thought; though I will admit to not being quite ready to throw them away completely as I have been a long time practicioner of avoiding the "always/never" ultimatum.


Then trauma master, Karim Brohi, Professor of Trauma Sciences at Barts and the London School of Medicine, and Consultant in Trauma...

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C-spine collar glory days

Posted by Matthew Mac Partlin on Wednesday, May 21, 2014, In : Clinical topics 


Sorry about this. I had planned to put up a post on the devolving role of the semi-rigid cervical spine collar two weeks ago. However, the more I read about it, the more I wrote and I ended up with a five page document. Waaay too long for a blog post!

So what I'm going to do instead is submit the original piece to a journal as an opinion piece and see if I can get it published. If that happens I'll put up a link to the article. In the meantime, as it may take some time to get through the edito...

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The value add of hard c-spine collars

Posted by Matthew Mac Partlin on Saturday, January 18, 2014, In : Clinical topics 
Posted by Matthew Mac Partlin on Monday, February 27, 2012

Courtesy of Cliff Reid's Resus.ME blog, here's an interesting article (Emerg Med J. 2012 Feb;29(2):104-7) that questions the added value of applying a hard c-spine collar to a trauma victim who is already secured on a spine board with head blocks and strapping. Balanced against the apparent lack of benefit is the potential for harm due to a greater limitation of mouth opening while a hard collar is in situ; though conventional practice...
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