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  1. Like every protocol in our EMS systems, the idea of pre-hospital clearing of c-spine has a time and place. First and foremost, communication with medical control should be done on a PT by PT and situation by situation basis. If you walk into a situation and before doing a thorough physical assesment, MOI and the presentation of the PT makes you think c-spine immobilization, do it. We all get the call when we are dispatched injuries from a fall, and we get there are little old lady is lying on the ground. Particularly for me, when grandma has kyphosis or lordosis and putting her on a backboard is going to do more harm than good, this is a good enough argument for considering clearing c-spine with appropriate assessment findings.
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