An unfolded Kendrick Extrication Device (KED) used in extricating patients from auto accidents and confined spaces. Immobilizes head, neck, and torso while minimizing further injury.

An unfolded Kendrick Extrication Device (KED) used in extricating patients from auto accidents and confined spaces. Immobilizes head, neck, and torso while minimizing further injury.

Treatment of Traction

Hands of health care professional insert otoscope into right ear of young man. Patient shown from neck up.

Nurse illiciting a positive Brudzinski sign by placing the patient supine an flexion the head upward. Resulting flexion of both the hips, kness and ankles with neck flexion indicate meningeal irritation.

Technique of tubal intubation. Patient's neck is hyperextended and the epiglottis is pulled toward toward the rescuer with left index finger. Tube is advanced slowly along the outer surface of finger.

A doctor taking a womans blood pressure

Principle of cervical skin traction. The traction is provided by weights hung from a strap worn around the patient's chin and back of head. The traction relieves the pressure on the cervical vertebrae.

Allied health professional applying a bag-valve-mask to the neck of a patient who has a stoma.

A doctor looking into a patient's ear with an ear scope

A doctor looking into a patient's ear with an ear scope drawn in black and white

Pregnant woman getting an ultrasound

Aromatherapist examines patients neck