Emergency neurological life support: Spinal cord compression (SCC)

Kristine H. O'Phelan; E. Bradshaw Bunney; Scott D. Weingart; Wade S. Smith

doi:10.1007/s12028-012-9756-3

Emergency neurological life support: Spinal cord compression (SCC)

Kristine H. O'Phelan, E. Bradshaw Bunney, Scott D. Weingart, Wade S. Smith

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Abstract

Acute spinal cord compression (SCC) is the most serious of the diseases of the cord and should be accorded special attention in neurocritical care. Patients with SCC have a combination of motor and sensory dysfunction that has a distribution referable to one, or a few contiguous, spinal levels. Bowel and bladder dysfunction and neck or back pain are usually part of the clinical presentation but are not uniformly present. Because interventions are time-sensitive, the recognition and treatment of SCC was chosen as an ENLS protocol.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	S96-S101
Journal	Neurocritical Care
Volume	17
Issue number	SUPPL. 1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s12028-012-9756-3
State	Published - Sep 2012

Keywords

Epidural abscess
Epidural infection
Myelopathy
Paraplegia
Protocol
Quadriplegia

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