Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• White, Jessica L
• Sheth, Kevin N

Titel

Spinal Cord Injury

Ist Teil von

• Neurocritical Care for the Advanced Practice Clinician, 2017, p.269-288

Ort / Verlag

Switzerland: Springer International Publishing AG

Erscheinungsjahr

2017

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Traumatic spinal cord injury (SCI) is one of the most devastating neurological injuries in both developed and developing nations. Worldwide, the incidence of SCI ranges from 3.6 to 195 per million. In the United States, the incidence and prevalence of SCI are higher than in other developed country. The estimated annual incidence of SCI in the United States is approximately 40 cases per million, totalling 12,000 new cases per year, and there are between 238,000 and 332,000 people with currently leaving with this condition. The incidence of SCI in men is four times higher than in women and the average age of the SCI is increasing as the population continues to age. Mean age of SCI occurrence has shifted from 29 in the 1970s to 40 in the 2010. While the occurrence of SCI is increasing, its severity is decreasing. The most common syndromic presentations include incomplete tetraplegia (41%), incomplete paraplegia (19%), complete paraplegia (18%) and complete tetraplegia (12%).