Neural Repair and Regeneration after Spinal Cord Injury and Spine Trauma provides readers with a comprehensive overview on the most up-to-date strategies to repair and regenerate the injured spinal cord following SCI and spine trauma.
Features- Contains contributions by international authors
- Covers recent clinical trial advancements and findings and updates on ongoing trials
- Presents an overview of clinical practice guidelines for the management of traumatic spinal cord injury featured
- Provides the reader with insights regarding the translation of research from bench to bedside and the skills needed to understand the translational pathway using real-life examples
These guidelines are quickly being adopted as the standard of care worldwide, and the comprehensive information found within this book will place these recommendations in context with current knowledge surrounding spinal cord injury and spine trauma.
Table of Contents- 1. Anatomy (touch on both spine trauma and SCI)
- 2. Epidemiology
- 3. Classification Systems: Spine Trauma
- 4. Classification Systems: SCI
- 5. Outcome Measures
- 6. Imaging: Spine Trauma
- 7. Imaging: SCI (include advanced imaging techniques)
- 8. Intraoperative imaging and Image Guidance 9. Spine Trauma Management Issues: Upper C-spine
- 10. Spine Trauma Management Issues: C-spine
- 11. Spine Trauma Management Issues: Thoracic and Lumbar
- 12. Spine Trauma Management Issues: Sacrum
- 13. Spine Trauma Management Issues: Polytrauma
- 14. Spine Trauma Management Issues: Geriatric
- 15. Spine Trauma- areas of controversy and emerging concepts
- 16. Traumatic Central Cord Injury
- 17. SCI Management: Pathophysiology
- 18. SCI Management: Role and Timing of Surgical Intervention
- 19. SCI Management: ICU Management (including MPSS) + Drugs
- 20. SCI Management: Rehabilitation
- 21. SCI Management: Economic Impact
- 22. Complications
- 23. Neurochemical Biomarkers of Acute Spinal Cord Injury
- 24. Clinical Trials: Drugs
- 25. Clinical Trials: Regenerative Approaches
- 26. Clinical Trials: Rehabilitation Approaches
- 27. Translational Perspective: Neuroprotective Strategies for Traumatic Spinal Cord Injury
- 28. Translational Perspective: Neuroregenerative Strategies for Traumatic Spinal Cord Injury
- 29. Emerging Concepts in the clinical management of SCI for the future
- 30. Translational Research in Spinal Cord Injury: What is in the Future?
