Critical Care in the Acute Cervical Spinal Cord Injury

Topics in Spinal Cord Injury Rehabilitation

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 11-32

  Royster, Robert A ^a   Barboi, Christina ^b   Peruzzi, William T ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Anesthesiology Associates of WI   (United States)

Author keywords

Airway management; Cervical spinal cord injury; Corticosteroids; Critical care; Hemodynamic; Immobilization; PEG; Percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy; Respiratory care; Spinal cord injury; Spinal shock; Tracheostomy

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; GANGLIOSIDE GM1; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE SODIUM SUCCINATE; NALOXONE; OPIATE ANTAGONIST; TIRILAZAD;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; AIRWAY; BACKACHE; CERVICAL SPINAL CORD INJURY; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; DISEASE COURSE; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; INJECTION PAIN; INTENSIVE CARE; LUNG EMBOLISM; MUSCLE CRAMP; MUSCLE TWITCH; NAUSEA; NERVE FIBER REGENERATION; NERVOUS SYSTEM INJURY; NEUTROPENIA; NUTRITIONAL SUPPORT; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PNEUMONIA; QUALITY OF LIFE; RASH; RESUSCITATION; REVIEW; SIDE EFFECT; STEROID THERAPY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUND INFECTION;

EID: 1442348900     PISSN: 10820744     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1310/TVC8-HV0R-BANF-2EX3     Document Type: Review

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