[Faline]

A 2 year old patient presented following a car accident. The patient was sat on his mother's lap in the front passenger seat at the time of the collision, during which, a front passenger seat airbag was deployed. The image of a lateral c-spine radiograph shows a fractured dislocation of the C2 verterbra.

[Faline]

Axial CT scan of fracture-dislocation of the thoracolumbar spine

[kayo brizzle]

Interesting. Not broken, dislocated. How do they fix that- a brace? Or just pop it back in...

[corpsehands]

they make seat belts and baby seats for a reason

[Usotsuki]

Irresponsible parents...

[Nickola]

Originally Posted by kayo brizzle ↗

Interesting. Not broken, dislocated. How do they fix that- a brace? Or just pop it back in...

I think it's both..and by the looks of it very serious injuries..probably surgery to relocate the dislocation..(realign back with the joint)..and then immobilisation..in serious dislocations like that there's probabl nerve damage..
Poor kid..

[Oswald2001]

What the saying?

"C2-5 keeps you alive."

Something like that?

[durt]

that stuff usually results in paralysis

[Pyramid_Head]

Stupid mother, puts the baby in her lap while she drives. What, does she think she's Brittany Spears?

[april30]

Originally Posted by Pyramid_Head ↗

Stupid mother, puts the baby in her lap while she drives. What, does she think she's Brittany Spears?

she was in the passenger seat, not driving, still doesn't make it right though!