Design and rationale of a Prospective, Observational European Multicenter study on the efficacy of acute surgical decompression after traumatic Spinal Cord Injury: The SCI-POEM study

Spinal Cord

Volumn 50, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 686-694

  Van Middendorp, J J ^a,b,c   Barbagallo, G ^d   Schuetz, M ^c,e   Hosman, A J F ^f  

^a STOKE MANDEVILLE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA   (Italy)

^e PRINCESS ALEXANDRA HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^f RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

comparative cohort study; decompression; observational study; spinal cord injury; study protocol; timing of surgery

Indexed keywords

ADULT RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; ARTICLE; ATELECTASIS; BLOOD VESSEL INJURY; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DECOMPRESSION SURGERY; DECUBITUS; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; DEHYDRATION; DYSPHAGIA; DYSPHONIA; FOLLOW UP; FRACTURE HEALING; HUMAN; ILEUS; KIDNEY FAILURE; LIQUORRHEA; LUNG EMBOLISM; MULTICENTER STUDY (TOPIC); OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PATIENT MONITORING; PATIENT SAFETY; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; SPINAL CORD INJURY; STUDY DESIGN; SURGICAL INFECTION;

COHORT STUDIES; DECOMPRESSION, SURGICAL; EUROPE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; PATIENT SELECTION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84866482783     PISSN: 13624393     EISSN: 14765624     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sc.2012.34     Document Type: Article

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