Reducing process barriers in acute hospital for spinal cord damage patients needing spinal rehabilitation unit admission

Incidence of Deep Vein Thrombosis after Spinal Cord Injury in Korean Patients at Acute Rehabilitation Unit

Deep vein thrombosis (DVT) and subsequent pulmonary embolism (PE) remain significant causes of morbidity, mortality in patients with spinal cord injury (SCI). Since incidence of DVT after SCI in Korean population has not been much studied, we retrospectively analyzed the medical records of 185 SCI patients admitted for acute rehabilitation unit to investigate the incidence of DVT. Color Doppler...

Spinal Cord Injury Rehabilitation

Economic Evaluation of Rehabilitation of Spinal Cord Injury patients in Iran in 2019

Objectives: Despite the various available evidence that rehabilitation interventions are effective for spinal cord injury patients, these interventions usually impose costs on the health system. Therefore, it is necessary to examine the cost-effectiveness of these interventions for the health system of countries through economic evaluation. Based on this, in this study, we have examined the cos...

Spinal cord stimulation significantly decreases the need for acute hospital admission for chest pain in patients with refractory angina pectoris.

OBJECTIVE To assess the impact of spinal cord stimulation (SCS) on the need for acute admissions for chest pain in patients with refractory angina pectoris. DESIGN Retrospective analysis of case records. PATIENTS 19 consecutive patients implanted for SCS between 1987 and 1997. All had three vessel coronary disease, and all were in New York Heart Association functional group III/IV. METHOD...

Characteristics and rehabilitation for patients with spinal cord stab injury.

[Purpose] The objective of the study was to compare the incidence, diagnosis, treatment, and prognosis of patients with spinal cord stab injury to those with the more common spinal cord contusion injury. [Subjects] Of patients hospitalized in China Rehabilitation Research Center from 1994 to 2014, 40 of those having a spinal cord stab injury and 50 with spinal cord contusion were selected. [Met...