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July 30, 2013 By Christopher Partyka Leave a Comment

the case.

You receive a BAT call about a 31 year-old male who has come off his bicycle after running into a stationary car at ~30 km/hour. Bystanders report that he was thrown 3-5m and had a loss of consciousness of ~3 minutes without witnessed seizure activity. [Read more…]

Filed Under: #FOAM, Evidence, Interesting, Radiology, Spine, Trauma Tagged With: blunt vertebral artery injury, cervical spine fracture, CT angiography, foramen transversarium, posterior circulation stroke, screening, Trauma, Vertebral artery dissection

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