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Episode 8: Backboards, Cervical Collars, and Ritual Sacrifice

Episode 8: Backboards, Cervical Collars, and Ritual Sacrifice

Update: 2025-08-28
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In this episode, I talk with Dr. Ben Abo, a well known physician and researcher (Who maintains his Paramedic license) about a recent paper that he co-authored that found absolutely no evidence to support the practice of spinal immobilization, including the use of rigid cervical collars. This paper was a comprehensive review and meta-analysis, which is the highest form of evidence on the hierarchy of evidence. We dive into the data, the dogma, and how patients' quality of life and well-being are being ritually sacrificed to the use of these devices.

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Episode 8: Backboards, Cervical Collars, and Ritual Sacrifice

Episode 8: Backboards, Cervical Collars, and Ritual Sacrifice