Distracting injury defined: does an isolated hip fracture constitute a distracting injury for clearance of the cervical spine? - Lindborg R, Jambhekar A, Chan V, Laskey D, Rucinski J, Fahoum B.

OBJECTIVES: As the population within the USA ages, the number of hip fractures seen yearly in the emergency department is expected to rise. According to the NEXUS criteria, many of these patients receive computerized tomographic scan (CT) evaluation of the...
Source: SafetyLit - Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Ergonomics, Human Factors, Anthropometrics, Physiology Source Type: news