Mitch Harris, MD, is Chief of the Orthopedic Trauma Service, at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and Associate Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery at Harvard Medical School. Here, Dr Harris shares a very useful algorithm for evaluating patients with trauma to the cervical spine. Imagine getting called to the Emergency Department to evaluate a painful and swollen [...]
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