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ReviewEuropean journal of trauma and emergency surgery : official publication of the European Trauma Society2017

On-scene treatment of spinal injuries in motor sports.

M Kreinest, M Scholz, P Trafford

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Review in European journal of trauma and emergency surgery : official publication of the European Trauma Society, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
4citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
1.3field-weighted citation impact, top 18% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 9 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. New clinical guidelines on the spinal stabilisation of adult trauma patients - consensus and evidence based.Scandinavian journal of trauma, resuscitation and emergency medicine · 2019
    Guideline
  2. Evaluating prehospital care of patients with potential traumatic spinal cord injury: scoping review.European spine journal : official publication of the European Spine Society, the European Spinal Deformity Society, and the European Section of the Cervical Spine Research Society · 2022
    Article
  3. Article
  4. Prehospital care of spinal injuries: a historical quest for reasoning and evidence.European spine journal : official publication of the European Spine Society, the European Spinal Deformity Society, and the European Section of the Cervical Spine Research Society · 2018
    Review
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

M KreinestDepartment for Trauma Surgery, BG Trauma Center Ludwigshafen, Ludwig-Guttmann-Str. 13, 67071, Ludwigshafen, Germany. michael.kreinest@bgu-ludwigshafen.de.
M ScholzDepartment for Orthopedics and Anesthesia, Specialty Hospital Vogelsang-Gommern, Sophie-v.-Boetticher-Straße 1, 39245, Gommern, Germany.
P TraffordDepartment of Anesthesia, Arrowe Park Hospital, Arrowe Park Road, Upton, United Kingdom.
Arrowe Park Hospital · GBKlinikum Ludwigshafen · DE

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Because spinal cord injuries can have fatal consequences for injured race car drivers, prehospital treatment of spinal injuries is a major concern in motor sports. A structured procedure for assessing trauma patients and their treatment should follow established ABCDE principles. Only then, a stable patient could be further examined and appropriate measures can be undertaken. For patients in an acute life-threatening condition, rapid transport must be initiated and should not be delayed by measures that are not indicated. If a competitor must first be extricated from the racing vehicle, the correct method of extrication must be chosen. To avoid secondary injury to the spine after a racing accident, in-line extrication from the vehicle and immobilization of the patient are standard procedures in motor sports and have been used for decades. Since immobilization can be associated with disadvantages and complications, the need for immobilization of trauma patients outside of motor sports medicine has become the subject of an increasing number of reports in the scientific literature. Even in motor sports, where specific safety systems that offer spinal protection are present, the indications for spinal immobilization need to be carefully considered rather than being blindly adopted as a matter of course. The aim of this article is to use recent literature to present an overview about the treatment of spinal injuries in motor sports. Further, we present a new protocol for indications for immobilizing the spine in motor sports that is based on the ABCDE principles and takes into account the condition of the patient.

Indexed as

Accidents, TrafficEmergency Medical ServicesAgedAthletic InjuriesCervical VertebraeGuideline AdherenceHumansImmobilizationMaleMoving and Lifting PatientsPractice Guidelines as TopicSpinal InjuriesSports MedicineTime-to-TreatmentEmergencyExtricationImmobilization protocolOut-of-hospitalPrehospital

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PMID28005155
OpenAlexW2566258760

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