Acute spinal cord compression (SCC) is the most serious of the diseases of the cord and should be accorded special attention in neurocritical care. Patients with SCC have a combination of motor and sensory dysfunction that has a distribution referable to one, or a few contiguous, spinal levels. Bowel and bladder dysfunction and neck or back pain are usually part of the clinical presentation but are not uniformly present. Because interventions are time-sensitive, the recognition and treatment of SCC was chosen as an ENLS protocol. © Neurocritical Care Society 2012.
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O’Phelan, K. H., Bunney, E. B., Weingart, S. D., & Smith, W. S. (2012, September). Emergency neurological life support: Spinal cord compression (SCC). Neurocritical Care. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12028-012-9756-3
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