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- Title
When emergency nurses should drop the log-rolling manoeuvre.
- Authors
Rowell, William
- Abstract
Spinal injury can result in morbidity and mortality. Research suggests that only a small percentage of patients assessed for spinal fracture have sustained the injury, however, and even fewer have unstable fractures. Protection of the spine and spinal cord is critically important and although many trauma patients leave hospital having had no spinal trauma, despite their mechanism of injury, most arrive with spinal precautions in place. Such patients must be moved and it is common practice to do this using the log-roll procedure. This article examines the literature on spinal motion during the log-roll procedure and transfer devices, and asks if there is still a place for the manoeuvre in modern trauma practice.
- Subjects
WOUND nursing; EMERGENCY medical services; EMERGENCY nursing; BONE fractures; HOSPITAL emergency services; MEDICAL protocols; NURSING practice; PATIENTS; PATIENT safety; SPINAL injuries; TRANSPORTATION of patients; LOGROLLING (Medical procedure); DISEASE complications; PREVENTION
- Publication
Emergency Nurse, 2014, Vol 22, Issue 4, p32
- ISSN
1354-5752
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.7748/en.22.4.32.e1324