Erschienen in:
01.09.2012 | Review Article
Emergency Neurological Life Support: Spinal Cord Compression (SCC)
verfasst von:
Kristine H. O’Phelan, E. Bradshaw Bunney, Scott D. Weingart, Wade S. Smith
Erschienen in:
Neurocritical Care
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Sonderheft 1/2012
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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.