In Part III of a continuing series on neuroanesthesia, the author explores the anesthetic considerations for acute spinal cord injuries. Because of the complexity and severity of physiologic disturbances seen in patients who have such injuries, the nurse anesthetist needs an understanding of the type of injury and the surgical procedure to be performed before the proper anesthetic care can be g...

Dynamic sequential computed tomographic scanning with automatic table incrementation uses low milliampere-second technique to eliminate tube cooling delays between scanning slices and, thus, markedly shortens examination times. A total of 25 patients with spinal column trauma involving 28 levels were studied with dynamic scans and retrospectively reviewed. Dynamic studies were considerably fast...

This first paper aims to review our current understanding of the structure and function of the normal equine spinal cord and its associated vertebral column, beginning with the latter. Because of their intimate relationship, an understanding of these two structures is vital for localising signs of spinal cord disease particularly as many spinal cord disorders involve changes in the vertebral co...

shoulder movements are a complex motor act, controlled by many muscles attached to thescapula and the vertebral column. these muscles are innervating by motoneurons (mns) located in theventral horn of the spinal cord. motoneurons of the ventral horn are arranged such that several groups ofmns can be distinguished in a transverse section through the spinal cord. the anatomical or functionalimpli...

Surgical decompression has been considered the gold standard for the symptomatic spinal stenotic patient. Thirty thousand decompressive procedures are performed annually and this number is expected to increase as the American population ages. Options are limited for the stenotic patient classified as a "poor surgical risk". Furthermore review of the literature indicates mixed results even in op...

OBJECTIVE Vertebral column resection (VCR) is a surgical technique that may be applied for correction of moderate to severe spinal deformities, including those with large rigid curves, fixed trunk translation, or asymmetry between the length of the convex and concave column of the deformity. This article reviews the VCR technique as it relates to correction of rigid spinal deformity, including ...

The purposes of the current investigation are to evaluate the epidemiology of water sport injuries at a coastal tertiary trauma center and to determine the association of these activities with spinal column injury and to determine whether aquatic trauma injuries differ significantly from those that occur terrestrially. A retrospective review of a consecutive series of 105 patients with aquatic-...

Both accidental and experimental lesions of the spinal cord suggest that neuronal processes occurring in the spinal cord modify the relay of information through the dorsal column-lemniscal pathway. How such interactions might occur has not been adequately explained. To address this issue, the receptive fields of mechanosensory neurons of the dorsal column nuclei were studied before and after ma...

objective: demyelination of cns axons occurs under pathological conditions such as multiple sclerosis and spinal cord injuries, but can be repaired by cell therapy. within the cns remyelination can be achieved by transplantation of neural stem cells (nscs). nscs are self-renewing cells that maintain the capacity to differentiate into cns-specific cell types and can differentiate into the three ...

RATIONALE Extremely sharp angular spinal deformity of healed tuberculosis can be corrected by vertebral column resection (VCR). However, the VCR techniques have many limitations including spinal column instability, greater blood loss, and greater risk of neurologic deficit. PATIENT CONCERNS We described a new spinal osteotomy technique to collect sharp angular spinal deformity in Pott disease...