
A 25-year-old man had a high-speed head-on collision with his mountain-bike. This patient was intubated because of neurological deterioration. There were no respiratory or circulatory problems.
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High-energy head-on collision causing: stable fractures of 2 thoracic vertebral bodies with a paraspinal haematoma which were treated with a cast - associated injury: severe head injury