Local cooling for traumatic spinal cord injury: Outcomes in 20 patients and review of the literature: Clinical article

Journal of Neurosurgery: Spine

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 550-561

  Hansebout, Robert R ^a   Hansebout, Christopher R ^b  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Local hypothermia; Regional hypothermia; Spinal cord cooling; Spinal cord injury; Spinal decompression; Steroid treatment; Trauma

Indexed keywords

DEXAMETHASONE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AMERICAN SPINAL INJURY ASSOCIATION IMPAIRMENT SCALE; ARTICLE; ATELECTASIS; BLADDER STONE; CERVICAL SPINE; CERVICAL SPINE INJURY; DEBRIDEMENT; DECOMPRESSION SURGERY; DECUBITUS; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HEAD INJURY; HUMAN; INDUCED HYPOTHERMIA; LOADING DRUG DOSE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MOTOR VEHICLE; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; OCCUPATION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PARAPLEGIA; PNEUMONIA; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PYLOROPLASTY; QUADRIPLEGIA; SENSATION; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD DECOMPRESSION; SPINAL CORD INJURY; SPINE FUSION; STEROID THERAPY; TEMPERATURE; THORACIC SPINE; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; DECOMPRESSION, SURGICAL; FEMALE; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HUMANS; HYPOTHERMIA, INDUCED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84899725418     PISSN: 15475654     EISSN: 15475646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/2014.2.SPINE13318     Document Type: Article

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