Patient experience of spinal immobilisation after trauma.
Camilla Ikast OttosenJacob SteinmetzMo Haslund LarsenJosefine S BaekgaardLars S RasmussenPublished in: Scandinavian journal of trauma, resuscitation and emergency medicine (2019)
Discomfort related to spinal immobilisation was reported in 38% of trauma patients. However, a sense of protection was a recurring theme in 80% of the trauma patients, who recalled being immobilised. Nearly half of the awake trauma patients had no memory of being immobilised.