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How to use this Website?

This website is for medical and paramedical professionals working in the field of spinal cord injuries. It contains learning modules for the whole team as well as for doctors, nurses, physiotherapists, occupational therapists, assistive technologists, social workers, psychologists and peer counsellors. The modules are intended for medical and paramedical students and junior clinicians. Others who have yet not assimilated sufficient knowledge on comprehensive management.

Prehospital care

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  2. Ahn H, Singh J, Nathens A, MacDonald RD, Travers A, Tallon J et al. Pre-hospital care management of a potential spinal cord injured patient: a systematic review of the literature and evidence-based guidelines. Journal of neurotrauma 2011; 28: 1341-1361.
  3. Finkelstein JA, Chapman JR, Mirza S. Occult vertebral fractures in ankylosing spondylitis. Spinal cord 1999; 37: 444-447.
  4. Lundgren P, Henriksson O, Naredi P, Björnstig U. The effect of active warming in prehospital trauma care during road and air ambulance transportation - a clinical randomized trial. Scandinavian journal of trauma, resuscitation and emergency medicine 2011; 19: 59-59.
  5. Sasser SM, Varghese M, Joshipura M, Kellermann A. Preventing death and disability through the timely provision of prehospital trauma care. Bulletin of the World Health Organization 2006; 84: 507-507.
  6. Tiska MA, Adu-Ampofo M, Boakye G, Tuuli L, Mock CN. A model of prehospital trauma training for lay persons devised in Africa. Emergency medicine journal: EMJ 2004; 21: 237-239.
  7. Wölfl CG, Bouillon B, Lackner CK, Wentzensen A, Gliwitzky B, Gross B et al. [Prehospital Trauma Life Support (PHTLS): An interdisciplinary training in preclinical trauma care]. Der Unfallchirurg 2008; 111: 688-694.