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POSITION EMS Spinal Precautions and The Use of The Long Backboard
POSITION EMS Spinal Precautions and The Use of The Long Backboard
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Position Statement: Spinal Precautions 393
r Education of field EMS personnel should include as many stakeholders in the trauma/EMS system as
evaluation of the risk of spinal injury in the context possible.
of options to provide spinal precautions. r Patients should be removed from backboards
r Protocols or plans to promote judicious use of long as soon as practical in an emergency depart-
backboards during prehospital care should engage ment.
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