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=== Displacement skills === If there are dangers around (such as fire, electric dangers or others) the patient has to be moved to a safe place,<ref name=":2" /><ref>{{Cite web |last=Community Emergency Response Team of L.A. |date=2024-10-31 |title=Lifts and carries |url=https://cert-la.com/cert-training-education/lifts-carries/ |website=CERTLA}}</ref> (if it is safe for the first aid provider to do so), where providing the required first aid procedures is possible. —'''In case of a possible severe spinal injury:''' when a patient seems to have a possible serious injury in the spinal cord (in the backbone, either at the neck part or the back part), that patient must not be moved except if that is necessary, and, when necessary, it must be done as little as possible and very carefully (see mentions about this type of injury in the gallery of drawings below). These precautions avoid many risks of causing further damages for the patient's mobility in the future. Usually, the patient needs to end up lying down, in a face-up position, on a sufficiently firm surface (for example, on the floor, which allows to perform the chest compressions of cardiopulmonary resuscitation). {{Gallery|File:Recovery_position_maneuver.jpg|—A victim with a serious injury in the spine (in the back or the neck), which indicates a risk to the future mobility, can be carefully transferred by several rescuers that work coordinately.<br />The victim’s head and back would be held in the same position they were.|File:Rautek-maneuver.png|—When there is a victim with a serious injury in the spine (in the back or the neck) and a rescuer without instruments, the rescuer can try to carry the victim carefully through the Rautek maneuver (as in the picture), trying to keep victim’s head and back in the same position they were.<br />The victim's head can be supported on the rescuer to try to soften the movements.<br />A second rescuer can hold the legs.|File:Blanket-Pull.png|—A victim without a serious injury in the spine (in the back or the neck) can be pulled through the floor, which is easier on a blanket, carpet or another tissue located under most of the body.<br />—Carrying on a base to victims with a suspected spinal injury would require to place them carefully, while keeping their head and back in the same position they were, on a higher or much thicker base (as a litter or mattress), for a better displacement.|width=225|height=225|align=center|title=Displacement of victims to a safe place}}
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