Early therapies for acute traumatic spinal cord injury

• Main Authors: St. M. Iencean, Al. Tascu, A. St. Iencean, I. Poeata
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: London Academic Publishing 2013-09-01
• Series: Romanian Neurosurgery
• Subjects: methylprednisolone; spinal cord injury
• Online Access: https://www.journals.lapub.co.uk/index.php/roneurosurgery/article/view/704

Early therapies for acute traumatic spinal cord injury has some key points: 1. Immediately or soon after the injury is recommended a hemodynamic support to maintain mean arterial pressure at 85 – 90 mmHg and monitoring in an intensive care unit for the first week after spinal cord injury. 2. Immediate surgery for spinal cord decompression is of high importance for the prognosis and evolution of spinal cord injury. 3. The recommendation is to treat all patients with spinal cord injury according to the local protocol, methylprednisolone is not standard of care anymore, it is a treatment option that should only be undertaken with knowledge of the potential complications.