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Trauma patients have a cervical spine injury until proven not to. This chapter leads us through the protocol of evaluating the trauma patient with consideration of this problem and tells us how to examine and treat the potential cervical spine injury.
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Brommeland, T., Linnerud, H. (2020). Cervical Spine Injury. In: Sundstrøm, T., Grände, PO., Luoto, T., Rosenlund, C., Undén, J., Wester, K. (eds) Management of Severe Traumatic Brain Injury. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-39383-0_15
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