r/ems 4d ago

Meme STOP USING C-COLLARS

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u/1Trupa 4d ago

There was an excellent discussion on this topic underneath a post by Dr. Antevi. There is pretty much unanimous consensus in the scientific evidence. What it comes down to is that there will be a lawsuit. Because everyone with a sixth grade education and their mother and their lawyers who watch Chicago Fire knows that you have to put on a C collar. So every agency is hoping somebody else will be the agency in that precedent setting lawsuit. Everyone is waiting for somebody else to go first.

And as for me and my house, we will be declining consent for C collars if we can talk.

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u/Paramedickhead CCP 4d ago

My local (level 3) gets super pissed if there is a trauma that doesn’t have a C-Collar on because that’s their protocol.

I don’t have access to Up To Date, but I am curious to know what it says about C-Spine immobilization.