Soft stretcher or hard stretcher for spinal fractures?
Typically, a hard stretcher is used in patients with spinal fractures. Because use hard wood, door plank, or the blackboard hard stretchers to carry patients, to ensure that patients with spine in the same horizontal plane, while the use of soft for handling stretcher, due to the effect of gravity of the human body may cause excessive spine buckling and torsion, serious when also can lead to fracture displacement, local spinal cord or nerve compression, and fracture caused by the following complete or incomplete paralysis, Therefore, it is generally recommended that patients with spinal fractures choose a hard stretcher.
It should be noted that, in order to protect the spinal cord of the patient from compression or traction injury, it is necessary to transport the patient with spinal fracture to the stretcher with the cooperation of multiple ambulance personnel. The stretcher should not be covered with too many soft objects such as quilts and sponges, and the movement should be gentle and coordinated in the process of handling to prevent the trunk from twisting. Patients after carrying the stretcher to be taken to a hospital for treatment in time, the preferred treatment for surgical treatment, such as screw rod fixation and bone graft or screw plate fixation, etc., but if the patient has appeared in the process of handling the symptoms of dyspnea, need to keep respiratory tract unobstructed, can adopt mechanical ventilation, stay in stable condition after surgery. In addition, patients should follow the doctor’s advice for rehabilitation training during the recovery period, such as muscle strength training in supine position, standing position training and so on.
Post time: Sep-26-2022