| Title |
Emergency Neurological Life Support: Spinal Cord Compression (SCC)
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|---|---|
| Published in |
Neurocritical Care, September 2012
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| DOI | 10.1007/s12028-012-9756-3 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Kristine H. O’Phelan, E. Bradshaw Bunney, Scott D. Weingart, Wade S. Smith |
| Abstract |
Acute spinal cord compression (SCC) is the most serious of the diseases of the cord and should be accorded special attention in neurocritical care. Patients with SCC have a combination of motor and sensory dysfunction that has a distribution referable to one, or a few contiguous, spinal levels. Bowel and bladder dysfunction and neck or back pain are usually part of the clinical presentation but are not uniformly present. Because interventions are time-sensitive, the recognition and treatment of SCC was chosen as an ENLS protocol. |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Portugal | 1 | 1% |
| Brazil | 1 | 1% |
| South Africa | 1 | 1% |
| Denmark | 1 | 1% |
| Russia | 1 | 1% |
| United States | 1 | 1% |
| Unknown | 84 | 93% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Other | 19 | 21% |
| Student > Postgraduate | 15 | 17% |
| Researcher | 14 | 16% |
| Professor > Associate Professor | 11 | 12% |
| Student > Master | 9 | 10% |
| Other | 15 | 17% |
| Unknown | 7 | 8% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 64 | 71% |
| Neuroscience | 8 | 9% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 2 | 2% |
| Psychology | 1 | 1% |
| Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science | 1 | 1% |
| Other | 2 | 2% |
| Unknown | 12 | 13% |