Arun P. Amar

Surgical Management of Spinal Cord Injury

Controversies and Consensus
Herausgeber: Amar, Arun Paul

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Surgical Management of Spinal Cord Injury: Controversies and Consensus reviews the controversies pertaining to the emergency, diagnostic, medical, and surgical management of spinal cord injury (SCI).
In vitro studies, animal models, and clinical outcome analyses have all failed to yield incontrovertible guidelines that define the role of surgery in SCI. As a result, there is no consensus regarding the necessity, timing, nature, or approach of surgical intervention. In this concise yet comprehensive book some of the leading authorities in the field scrutinize the scientific data and summarize the foundations of rational treatment paradigms.
Specific topics include:
the timing of decompressive surgery
the adjunctive use of solumedrol
management of penetrating injuries
radiographic evaluation
spinal stabilization
pediatric SCI
Surgical Management of Spinal Cord Injury is an essential new book for all members of the patient care team involved in spinal cord injury.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Blackwell Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 162mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 630g
• ISBN-13: 9781405122061
• ISBN-10: 1405122064
• Artikelnr.: 21533386

Autorenporträt

Arun Paul Amar, MD., Department of Neurosurgery, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

1 Pathogenesis of acute spinal cord injury and theoretical bases ofneurological recovery.

2 Pharmacotherapy for spinal cord injury.

3 Prehospital and emergency department management of spinal cordinjury.

4 Radiographic workup of spinal cord injury.

5 Controversies in surgical decompression: timing ofdecompressive surgery of the spinal cord.

6 Biomechanics of spinal column failure.

7 Principles of spine stabilization.

8 Controversies in the management of cervical spinal cordinjury.

9 Surgical decision-making in spinal fracture dislocations.

10 Spinal cord injury in pediatric patients.

11 Management of penetrating spinal cord injury.

12 Traumatic vascular injury to the cervical spine.

13 Intraoperative neurophysiologic monitoring during spinalsurgery.

14 Surgery after the acute phase of traumatic spinal cordinjury

Rezensionen

From the forewords:

"Arun Amar has performed a real service to the practitioners involved in the surgical management of spinal injuries by putting together this excellent group of papers, and I am optimistic that the knowledge transfer will result in improved patient outcomes."
Charles H. Tator, CM, MD, PhD, FRCSC, FACS
University of Toronto and Toronto Western Hospital

"The content of this volume is essential material for all clinical neuro-scientists and an important presentation for all those seeking to develop a grasp of modernity of concept and practical action relating to this problem."
Michael L. J. Apuzzo, M.D.
Editor-in-Chief of Neurosurgery

"This is a good book for any emergency room or neurosciences library."
Doodys Review