Australasian emergency nursing journal : AENJ
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Australas Emerg Nurs J · Aug 2015
ReviewSpinal immobilisaton in pre-hospital and emergency care: A systematic review of the literature.
Spinal immobilisation has been a mainstay of trauma care for decades and is based on the premise that immobilisation will prevent further neurological compromise in patients with a spinal column injury. The aim of this systematic review was to examine the evidence related to spinal immobilisation in pre-hospital and emergency care settings. ⋯ There are no published high-level studies that assess the efficacy of spinal immobilisation in pre-hospital and emergency care settings. Almost all of the current evidence is related to spinal immobilisation is extrapolated data, mostly from healthy volunteers.