Spinal Trauma

Aka: Spinal Trauma, Spinal Injury, Spinal Cord Trauma, Acute Spine Injury, Spinal Cord Injury

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II. Epidemiology

  1. Incidence Spinal Cord Injury: 17,000 per year in U.S.

III. Precautions

  1. Early recognition of Spinal Cord Injury is critical to reducing morbidity and mortality

IV. Causes

  1. Motor Vehicle Accidents
  2. Falls
  3. Sports Injury

V. Types

  1. Regions
    1. Cervical Spine Injury
    2. Thoracolumbar Injury
  2. Incomplete spinal cord injuries
    1. See Spinal Cord Syndrome
    2. Central Cord Syndrome
    3. Anterior Cord Syndrome
    4. Brown-Sequard Syndrome (Hemicord Syndrome)

VI. Imaging

  1. Cervical Spine
    1. See Cervical Spine Imaging in Acute Traumatic Injury
    2. See Cervical Spine Injury
    3. See Cervical Spine Fracture
    4. See Subaxial Injury Classification Scale (SLIC)
  2. Thoracic and Lumbar Spine Imaging
    1. See Thoracolumbar Trauma
    2. See Thoracolumbar Facture
    3. See Thoracolumbar Injury Classification Scale (TLIC)

VII. Management: Acute

  1. See Trauma Evaluation
  2. See Cervical Spine Injury
  3. See Pediatric Cervical Spine Injury
  4. See Cervical Spine Immobilization

VIII. Management: Chronic

  1. See Spine Injured Patient

IX. References

  1. Rodriguez, Winger, Poulo and Glunk (2023) Crit Dec Emerg Med 37(3): 23-9

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Ontology: Spinal Injuries (C0037937)

Definition (MSH) Injuries involving the vertebral column.
Definition (CSP) damage inflicted on the vertebral column as the direct or indirect result of an external force, with or without disruption of structural continuity.
Concepts Injury or Poisoning (T037)
MSH D013124
SnomedCT 262521009
English Injuries, Spinal, Spinal Injuries, spine injury, Injury, Spinal, Spinal Injury, SPINAL INJ, INJ SPINAL, vertebral injury, Vertebral injury, Spinal Injuries [Disease/Finding], injury spine, spinal injuries, injury spinal, injuries spinal, injuries vertebral, injuries spine, spinal injury (diagnosis), spinal injury, INJURY, SPINAL, SPINAL INJURY, Spinal injury, SI - Spinal injury, Spinal injury (disorder)
French Lésions traumatiques spinales, Lésions traumatiques de la colonne vertébrale, Blessures de la colonne vertébrale, Blessures du rachis, Blessures rachidiennes, Blessures vertébrales, Lésions traumatiques rachidiennes, Atteinte vertébrale, Traumatisme du rachis, Lésions traumatiques du rachis, Traumatisme spinal, Traumatismes de la colonne vertébrale, Traumatismes rachidiens, Traumatismes spinaux
Swedish Ryggradsskador
Czech páteř - poranění, Poranění obratle
Finnish Selkärankavammat
Russian POZVONOCHNIKA TRAVMY, ПОЗВОНОЧНИКА ТРАВМЫ
Croatian KRALJEŽNICA, OZLJEDE
Spanish Lesión traumática vertebral, Lesiones Vertebrales, injuria de la columna vertebral (trastorno), injuria de la columna vertebral, injuria espinal, lesión traumática de la columna vertebral (trastorno), lesión traumática de la columna vertebral, Traumatismos Vertebrales
Portuguese Lesão vertebral, Lesões da Coluna Vertebral, Traumatismos da Coluna Vertebral
German Wirbelsaeulenverletzung, Wirbelsäulenverletzungen
Italian Traumatismo vertebrale, Lesioni spinali
Dutch wervelletsel, Letsel van de wervelkolom, Letsels van de wervelkolom, Wervelkolom, letsel van de, Wervelkolom, letsels van de
Japanese ﾂｲｺﾂｿﾝｼｮｳ, 椎骨損傷, 脊椎損傷, 脊椎外傷
Polish Uszkodzenia kręgosłupa, Urazy kręgosłupa, Uraz kręgosłupa, Uszkodzenie kręgosłupa
Hungarian Csigolyasérülés
Norwegian Skader, ryggrad, Skader, ryggsøyle, Spinalskader, Ryggradsskader, Ryggsøyleskader
Derived from the NIH UMLS (Unified Medical Language System)

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