Spine and spinal cord trauma : evidence-based management /

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Other Authors: Vaccaro, Alexander R., Fehlings, Michael, Dvorak, Marcel F.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Thieme, [2011]
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Online Access:CONNECT
Table of Contents:
  • Evidence-based medicine: outcomes assessment
  • Principles of evidence-based medicine in spine trauma
  • Outcome assessment tools for spinal trauma patients
  • The impact of evidence-based medicine in cervical trauma
  • The impact of evidence-based medicine in thoracolumbar trauma
  • Fundamental principles and clinical assessment
  • The changing face of spinal trauma throughout the world
  • Spinal embryology and anatomy of the pediatric and adult spine
  • Emergency room evaluation of the spinal injury patient including assessment of spinal shock
  • American spinal injury association neurological examination and neurological assessment of spinal cord injury
  • Emergency nursing and allied health care of the spine and spinal cord injury patients
  • Principles of nonoperative and intensive care unit management of spinal cord injury
  • Pharmacological management of acute spinal cord injury
  • Imaging
  • Imaging of the thoracic and lumbar spine during the emergency department evaluation
  • Clearing the cervical spine in the trauma patient: a systematic review
  • Spinal nomenclature and image measurement techniques for cervical, thoracic, lumbar, and sacral injuries
  • Spinal stability
  • Problem-based approach to the principles of spinal injury management
  • Treatment and outcomes of pediatric spinal cord injury
  • Principles of spinal instrumentation in the treatment of pediatric cervical, thoracic, and lumbar spinal injuries
  • The benefits of early stabilization of spinal fractures in the trauma patient
  • Principles of cervical whiplash management
  • Timing of surgical intervention in the setting of acute spinal cord injury
  • Management of spinal cord injury in the setting of a closed head injury
  • Closed skeletal reduction and bracing of cervical, thoracic, and lumbar spinal injuries
  • Management of cervical spine injuries in the athlete: return-to-play criteria
  • Upper cervical injuries and their management
  • Craniocervical disruption: injuries of the occiput-C1-C2 region
  • Management of type ii and type iii odontoid fractures
  • Management of C2 traumatic spondylolisthesis (hangman's fracture) and other variants
  • Subaxial cervical spine injuries and their management
  • The subaxial cervical spine injury classification scale (SLIC)
  • The cervical spine injury severity score (CSISS)
  • Cervical burst fractures
  • Flexion and cervical distraction injuries characterized by the SLIC system
  • Distraction injuries and ankylosing spondylitis in cervical trauma
  • Traumatic central cord syndrome secondary to cervical spondylosis
  • Surgical approach to rotational/translational injuries using the SLIC system
  • Management of cervical thoracic junctional injuries.
  • Thoracolumbar spine injuries and their management
  • The thoracolumbar injury classification and severity score (TLICS)
  • Management of thoracolumbar compression fractures
  • Nonoperative and surgical management of thoracolumbar burst fractures: a systematic review
  • Thoracolumbar flexion-distraction injuries
  • Thoracolumbar hyperextension injuries in the stiff spine
  • Thoracolumbar injury classification for fracture-dislocations
  • Confounders and their influence on the thoracolumbar injury classification and severity score (TLICS)
  • Surgical management of osteoporotic thoracolumbar spinal fractures
  • Surgical management of posttraumatic kyphosis
  • The role of surgery in traumatic conus medullaris and cauda equina injuries
  • Sacral fractures
  • Rehabilitation following spinal injury and late complications
  • Autonomic dysreflexia
  • Management of neuropathic pain and late syrinx formation
  • Rehabilitation strategies for spinal cord injury-induced neuropathic pain and spasticity
  • Charcot disease of the spine after traumatic spinal cord injury
  • Emerging techniques and translational research
  • Anterior endoscopic treatment of thoracolumbar spine fractures
  • Vertebroplasty techniques for stabilization of thoracolumbar spine traumatic fractures
  • Minimally invasive posterior stabilization techniques in trauma
  • Promising preclinical regeneration and repair strategies for spinal cord injury
  • Emerging rehabilitation strategies for spinal cord injury
  • Robotics, functional electrical stimulation, brain-computer interfaces, and locomotor training strategies
  • Translational clinical research in acute spinal cord injury.