"It's not what you would do in a hospital setting, but how do you get someone with a potential cervical-spine injury free after you've just dug them out of an avalanche slide? Stabilize their neck with their arms and drag them! (And kudos to our instructors.  Not only did they dig a deep snow cave for us to locate with avalanche beacons, but one of the brave residents agreed to be buried down there for one of our ""scenarios"". I wish I could have seen the look on my face when we realized there was a person 5 feet under the snow!)"
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