Morning Report: 1/17/2014

Today’s Morning Report is presented by Dr. Alsup!

 

Unstable Cervical Spine Fractures

“If thou examinest a man having a dislocation in a vertebra of his neck, shouldst thou find him unconscious of his two arms and his two legs on account of it, while his phallus is erected on account of it, and his urine drops from his member without his knowing it; His flesh has received wind; his two eyes are bloodshot; It is a dislocation of a vertebra of his neck.”

—The Edwin Surgical Papyrus

 

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Flexion Injury:

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Extension Injury:

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C1:

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Jay Khadpe MD

Editor in Chief of "The Original Kings of County" Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine Assistant Residency Director SUNY Downstate / Kings County Hospital

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