| Literature DB >> 22956117 |
Kristine H O'Phelan1, E Bradshaw Bunney, Scott D Weingart, Wade S Smith.
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.Entities:
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Year: 2012 PMID: 22956117 DOI: 10.1007/s12028-012-9756-3
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Neurocrit Care ISSN: 1541-6933 Impact factor: 3.210