Spinal injuries and associated neurologic dysfunction are encountered frequently in small animal practice. Such injuries are most often the result of automobile trauma, or less commonly gunshot injuries, falls from heights, or animal abuse. The vertebral column has two distinct functions that become compromised in the injured animal and that must be considered in the diagnosis and management of...

sustain traumatic brain injuries due to blunt force trauma. Cervical spinal injury should be suspected in any trauma patient with loss of consciousness. All of the following patients should undergo a radiographic search for a cervical spinal injury: patients who present awake with neck pain or tenderness, patients with a neurologic deficit, patients who have sustained a traumatic brain injury, ...

As of mid 2001, out of the 34000 spinal injuries that took place in the previous year, over half (55%) were cervical spine injuries [18]. Additionally, out of all the cervical spinal injuries incurred by patients in the United States every year, 15% of those injuries are fatal [7]. Motor vehicle crashes are the leading cause of death for persons under 45 years of age, and the number one cause o...

just regarding different risk factors for antibiotic resistant uropathogenes, it seems justice to improve diagnostic power for drug resistant uropathogenes and well appropriate empirical therapy. 300 and 145 cases of clinicopathologically diagnosed nosocomial and spinal cord injured (sci) associated urinary tract infection (uti), respectively, were considered as our samples included in our 24 m...

results the mean qol in these patients was 37.1 ± 1.7 years (21 - 65 years) and mean disease duration was 7.3±6 years. the most common injury was paraplegia. most of the patients have moderate qol (54.7 %). the results showed a significant relationship between qol and marital status and employment status (p < 0.05). also, results showed a significant relationship between qol and education level...

Summary: Background: Patients with spinal cord injury (SCI) usually have permanent and often devastating neurologic deficits and disability and pain (1). According to the National Institutes of Health, &quot;among neurological disorders, the cost to society of automotive SCI is exceeded only by the cost of mental retardation&quot;(2). Neurogenic pain constitutes one of the enigmatic clinical sy...

BACKGROUND Gunshot injuries are the third leading cause of spinal injuries, after falls from a significant height and traffic accidents. Severity of spinal damage from gunshot injury depends upon certain mechanical and biological factors. The aim of the present study was to investigate the effect of biological factors on survival in cases of spinal gunshot injury. METHODS A total of 110 cases...

BACKGROUND The primary purpose of this article is to provide an overview of demography, neurological level of injury, extent of lesion, incidence, prevalence, injury mechanisms as well as lethality and causes of death associated with traumatic spinal cord injuries. MATERIAL AND METHOD A literature search was carried out in PubMed, with the search words "traumatic spinal cord injury"/"traumati...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to determine the incidence of missed and mismanaged injuries of the spinal cord, to identify factors contributing to a failure to recognize such injuries, and to assess the consequences of such failures. METHODS Missed and mismanaged injuries were defined using previously validated statements. All medical records and radiographs of patients with acute t...

This article has been subjected to double blind peer review The first two articles in this series described the anatomy and physiology of the vertebral column and spinal cord, and examined the aetiology and pathophysiology of spinal cord injuries (Sheerin 2004, 2005). These provide a basis for understanding the presentation and management of spinal cord injuries. It is difficult to be prescript...