Management strategies to optimize clinical outcomes after acute traumatic spinal cord injury: integration of medical and surgical approaches.
JOURNAL OF NEUROSURGICAL SCIENCES(2012)
Abstract
Although spinal cord injury (SCI) is approximately one-tenth as common as traumatic brain injury, its effects, at both a personal and societal level, are particularly devastating. At present, there is no single therapy that has demonstrated a uniform ability to improve neurological outcomes for SCI patients at long-term follow-up. In spite of this, the last 30 years have borne witness to numerous incremental advances within the field of spinal trauma including the incorporation of standardized neurological assessment tools, the completion of several large therapeutic efficacy trials and the development of modern day surgical classification systems. In this article we review the current evidence surrounding the medical and surgical management of SCI, as well as identify areas where future research is needed.
MoreTranslated text
Key words
Spinal cord injuries,Therapeutics,Surgical procedures, operative
AI Read Science
Must-Reading Tree
Example
![](https://originalfileserver.aminer.cn/sys/aminer/pubs/mrt_preview.jpeg)
Generate MRT to find the research sequence of this paper
Chat Paper
Summary is being generated by the instructions you defined