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Log-rolling onto a spine board. In medicine, in particular, in emergency medicine, the log roll or logrolling is a maneuver used to move a patient without flexing the spinal column. Patient's legs are stretched, the head is held, to immobilize the neck. [1]
Spinal precautions, also known as spinal immobilization and spinal motion restriction, are efforts to prevent movement of the bones of the spine in those with a risk of a spine injury. [1] This is done as an effort to prevent injury to the spinal cord [ 1 ] in unstable spinal fractures . [ 2 ]
The rolling methods consist in rolling the casualty on their side; it is then possible: to put a long spine board against their back, then to roll back the casualty on their back; to slide a folded flexible stretcher (or a blanket); the casualty is then rolled on the other side to unfold the flexible stretcher.
This is usually harmless, but cracking the spine and neck in particular can be very unsafe, McDermott warns. The neck is a delicate structure which includes the spinal cord, major blood vessels ...
Spinal immobilization is necessary if there is a likelihood of head or spinal injury. [2] Once the patient is ready to be moved, the first step is the casualty lifting, to put him/her on a stretcher or litter (rescue basket). The final step is the patient transfer from the stretcher to the hospital bed.
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