The evidence against backboards. Backboards often don't help and may hurt--why do they persist?
EMS World
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2013 Aug;42(8):42-5.
Author
Bryan E Bledsoe
1
Affiliation
1
University of Nevada School of Medicine, Las Vegas, USA.
PMID:
24073508
No abstract available
MeSH terms
Emergency Medical Services*
Equipment Design
Humans
Patient Safety*
Protective Devices / adverse effects*
Restraint, Physical / instrumentation*
Spinal Injuries*
Transportation of Patients / methods*
United States