Motion and dural sac compression in the upper cervical spine during the application of a cervical collar in case of unstable craniocervical junction—A study in two new cadaveric trauma models

• Shiyao Liao ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Shiyao Liao, Niko R. E. Schneider

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation BG Trauma Center Ludwigshafen, Department of Trauma Surgery and Orthopaedics, Ludwigshafen, Germany

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• Niko R. E. Schneider ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Shiyao Liao, Niko R. E. Schneider

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation University Hospital Heidelberg, Department of Anesthesiology, Heidelberg, Germany

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• Petra Hüttlin,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation BG Trauma Center Ludwigshafen, Department of Trauma Surgery and Orthopaedics, Ludwigshafen, Germany

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• Paul A. Grützner,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation BG Trauma Center Ludwigshafen, Department of Trauma Surgery and Orthopaedics, Ludwigshafen, Germany

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• Frank Weilbacher,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation University Hospital Heidelberg, Department of Anesthesiology, Heidelberg, Germany

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• Stefan Matschke,

  Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation BG Trauma Center Ludwigshafen, Department of Trauma Surgery and Orthopaedics, Ludwigshafen, Germany

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• Erik Popp,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation University Hospital Heidelberg, Department of Anesthesiology, Heidelberg, Germany

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• Michael Kreinest

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: michael.kreinest@bgu-ludwigshafen.de

  Affiliation BG Trauma Center Ludwigshafen, Department of Trauma Surgery and Orthopaedics, Ludwigshafen, Germany

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1246-8714

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