• Neurocritical care · Sep 2012

    Review

    Emergency neurological life support: spinal cord compression (SCC).

    • Kristine H O'Phelan, E Bradshaw Bunney, Scott D Weingart, and Wade S Smith.
    • Department of Neurology, University of Miami, Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL, USA. kophelan@med.miami.edu
    • Neurocrit Care. 2012 Sep 1;17 Suppl 1:S96-101.

    AbstractAcute 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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