Hard collar immobilisation following elective surgery on the cervical spine: a cross-sectional survey of UK spinal surgeons

JFM Brannigan, OD Mowforth, JJ Francis… - British Journal of …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
… Our results suggest that a minority of UK-based surgeons use hard collars after elective
cervical spine procedures. Where collars are used, specific indications are mixed, but they are …

Medical device-related pressure ulcers: a systematic review and meta-analysis

D Jackson, AM Sarki, R Betteridge, J Brooke - International journal of …, 2019 - Elsevier
… The commonly identified medical devices associated with the risk of developing medical
device-related pressure injuries from this review include respiratory devices, cervical collars, …

Rethinking cervical spine clearance in obtunded trauma patients: An updated systematic review and meta-analysis

PM Dion, M Lapierre, H Said, S Tremblay, K Tariq… - Injury, 2023 - Elsevier
… Predominantly, these injuries affect the cervical spine (c-spine), which presents a … cervical
spine injury (CSI) [2,3]. The associated prolonged immobilization due to cervical collars can …

Cervical spine clearance in obtunded patients after blunt traumatic injury: a systematic review

JH Badhiwala, CK Lai, W Alhazzani… - Annals of internal …, 2015 - acpjournals.org
… during transportation, and prolong cervical collar immobilization and its associated illnesses.
… imaging or prolonged cervical immobilization in excluding significant cervical spine injury …

The impact of traumatic herniated discs in cervical facets dislocations treatments: systematic review and meta-analysis

FJ Onishi, JW Daniel, AF Joaquim… - European Spine …, 2022 - Springer
… After reductions, the authors proposed a single anterior cervical discectomy and fusion (ACDF),
along with the use of a Miami-J collar. Radiological failure rate was present in 8 (21%) of …

[HTML][HTML] Immobilization Protocols for the Treatment of Cervical Spine Fracture: A Scoping Review

A Bhushan, A Beland, C Poelstra, J Butterfield… - The Spine Journal, 2024 - Elsevier
… , and delayed surgery were common adverse events associated with cervical collar use. …
heterogeneity of studies limited our sensitivity analysis per cervical fracture type and age. Future …

[HTML][HTML] Are external cervical orthoses necessary after anterior cervical discectomy and fusion: a review of the literature

R Camara, OO Ajayi, F Asgarzadie - Cureus, 2016 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
… Fusion rate is statistically unrelated to cervical collar use The results of the study suggest
that short-term cervical collar use post ACDF and interbody cage may help certain patients …

Methods for evaluating cervical range of motion in trauma settings

S Voss, M Page, J Benger - … journal of trauma, resuscitation and emergency …, 2012 - Springer
… is usual practice to apply a cervical collar to the neck of … cervical collars is that the trauma
patient may have sustained an unstable cervical spine injury, and that the application of a collar

… of soft cervical collar among whiplash patients in two italian emergency departments is associated with persistence of symptoms: a propensity score matching analysis

F Mourad, G Rossettini, E Galeno, A Patuzzo, G Zolla… - Healthcare, 2021 - mdpi.com
… Purpose: Although the use of soft cervical collars in the emergency department (ED), for …
The purpose of our study was to investigate the impact of the early use of soft cervical collars on …

Cervical collars in patients requiring spinal immobilisation

J Butler, D Bates - Emergency Medicine Journal, 2001 - emj.bmj.com
… a long spinal board, a correctly sized cervical collar, and head blocks with straps to secure
… neck collar and requests that it is removed. You wonder whether the cervical collar provides …