Proceed to c/spine seminar

At various points in this case, you will have noted that there were reminders about protecting Will's cervical spine. 

In the panic of resuscitation, this is often forgotten by inexperienced first-aiders. 

We are now going to explore why this is crucial. Yes, you have to save his life. But the spinal cord is a fragile thing too. 

We have created a short video, using an Osirix model, which recreates a 3D fly-through of the cervical spine

In it, as you travel down the spinal canal, you will notice a bony curtain coming down across the canal. This is based on a real case and real CT scan data of a C5/6 spinal cord compression.