Extrication Collars

[Shannon /Terrell]

Aspen has a website at www.aspencollar.com or you can reach them at
1-800-295-2776.
good luck.
Shannon
----- Original Message -----
From: Shannon /Terrell <sterrell@prodigy.net>
To: <trauma-list@trauma.org>
Sent: Tuesday, April 18, 2000 11:15 PM
Subject: Re: Extrication Collars


> At our facility we replace "stiff necks" or other hard collars
> including"Philadelphia" collars as soon as a patient reaches the ICU or
> trauma floor.  We began using the "Aspen" collar a few years ago and it
> works well.  We were having not only a problem with patients complaing of
> discomfort, but within hours of wearing "hard" collars, they were
developing
> skin breakdown.  Patients in the ICU keep there collars anywhere from days
> to sometimes weeks with few complications.  We have a signigicantly lower
> incidence of skin breakdown and patients feel much more comfortable.  The
> collar itself is padded with a washable/disposable pad over plastic so
> soiling does not indicate a new collar, just changing the liner.
>
> Hope this is helpful...
> Shannon Terrell RN
> ---- Original Message -----
> From: Sharryn Byers <Sharryn_Byers@wsahs.nsw.gov.au>
> To: <Trauma-list@trauma.org>
> Sent: Monday, April 10, 2000 8:22 PM
> Subject: Extrication Collars
>
>
> Greetings,
>                    I am a Nurse Educator working in a Neuro-Trauma area
and
> I am writing a procedure for the removal of extrication collars- "stiff
> neck", "WIZ" etc and their replacement with a standard hard collar -
> "Philadelphia" etc, for those patients whose c-spine has not been cleared
> within 24 hours. Our trauma guidelines suggest that these collars can stay
> on for 24 hours, our trauma patients start complaining, on average, at
about
> 6 hours. By 12 hours those able to have requested padding under the edges!
A
> search of the literature has not helped. Does anyone out there have an
> established bench mark for this that I can quote or some research in the
> area that might help?
> Replies to limbury@pnc.com.au please.
>
> Pat Barnwell
> RN, Ba (Educ), TNCC, ENPC, CATN
> Glenbrook NSW
> AUSTRALIA
>
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