TY - JOUR A1 - Schleicher, Philipp A1 - Pingel, Andreas A1 - Kandziora, Frank T1 - Safe management of acute cervical spine injuries T2 - EFORT open reviews N2 - Cervical spine injuries are frequent and often caused by a blunt trauma mechanism. They can have severe consequences, with a high mortality rate and a high rate of neurological lesions.Diagnosis is a three-step process: 1) risk assessment according to the history and clinical features, guided by a clinical decision rule such as the Canadian C-Spine rule; 2) imaging if needed; 3) classification of the injury according to different classification systems in the different regions of the cervical spine.The urgency of treatment is dependent on the presence of a neurological lesion and/or instability. The treatment strategy depends on the morphological criteria as defined by the classification. KW - cervical spine KW - trauma Y1 - 2018 UR - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/46851 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-468519 SN - 2058-5241 SN - 2396-7544 N1 - Open access: This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed. VL - 3 IS - 5 SP - 347 EP - 357 PB - The British Editorial Society of Bone & Joint Surgery CY - London ER -