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L9: Spinal Trauma Flashcards

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Anatomy of Vertebral Column

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Anatomy of Vertebral Column

  • Lordosis in ….
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  • Cervical & Lumbar
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Anatomy of Vertebral Column

  • Kyphosis in ……..
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Thoracic & Sacral

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Cervical Vertebra

  • Characters
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  • Vertebral bodies (lesser weight bearing).
  • Extensive joint surfaces allow greater Range of Movement “ROM”
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Cervical Vertebra

  • Movements allowed
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  • Rotation
  • Flexion
  • Extension
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Thoracic Vertebra

  • Characters
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  • Rib bearing vertebrae.
  • Designed to remain stiff
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Thoracic Vertebra

  • Movements allowed
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  • Minimal Flexion & Extension
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Lumbar Vertebra

  • Characters
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  • Weight-bearing vertebrae
  • Houses cauda equine
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Lumbar Vertebra

  • Movements allowed
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Minimal Rotation

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Sacral Vertebra

  • Characters
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Transmits weight of body to the pelvis

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Sacral Vertebra

  • Movements Allowed
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No Motion

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Spinal nerve roots Exit through the intervertebral foramen …….

  • C1- C7
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Above

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Spinal nerve roots Exit through the intervertebral foramen …….

  • C8 - S5
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Below

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Spinal cord ends below lower border of …..

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L1.

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What is cauda equina formed of?

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  • Formed by lumbosacral nerve root in the spinal canal before exiting.
  • Cauda equina is below L1.
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Level of Cauda Equina

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if the vertebra level is ……, Then the cord Level is ……

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if the vertebra level is C2 - C7, Then the cord Level is ……

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Add 1+

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if the vertebra level is T1 - T6 , Then the cord Level is ……

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Add 2+

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if the vertebra level is T7 - T9, Then the cord Level is ……

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Add 3+

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if the vertebra level is T 10, Then the cord Level is ……

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L1, L2

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if the vertebra level is T11, Then the cord Level is ……

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L3, L4

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if the vertebra level is T12, Then the cord Level is ……

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L5

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if the vertebra level is L1, Then the cord Level is ……

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Sacrococcygeal Segments

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Spinal Cord Nucleui

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Spinal nerve cells: ventral (motor), dorsal (sensory):

  • Sensory cells in dorsal horn.
  • Motor cells in Ventral horn.
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Mid Dorsal Spinal Cord & Neural Canal Space

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Complete Lesion

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Neurlogical Recovery in cauda equina

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Unpredictable

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Denis Column Model

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Denis Column Model

  • Anterior Column
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  1. Anterior longitudinal ligament.
  2. Anterior annular ligament.
  3. Anterior half of VB.
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Denis Column Model

  • Middle Column
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  1. Posterior long. Lig.
  2. Posterior annular ligament.
  3. Posterior half of VB.
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Denis Column Model

  • Posterior Column
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  1. Ligamentum flavum.
  2. Superior & Interspinous lig.
  3. Intertransverse capsular lig.
  4. Neural arch.
  5. Pedicle & spinous process.
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What is an Unstable Fracture?

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Middle column
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either anterior or Posterior column is damaged.

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Rupture of interspinous ligament

  • Characters
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  • Associated with avulsion of spinous process.
  • Unstable spin
  • Further flexion → increase neurological injury
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Mechanisms (Causes) of Spinal Trauma

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  • Direct Injury
  • Indirect Injury
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Mechanisms (Causes) of Spinal Trauma

  • Direct Injury
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  • Penetrating injuries to the spine: e.g., firearms and knives.
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Mechanisms (Causes) of Spinal Trauma

  • Indirect Injury
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  • Most common cause of significant spinal damage.
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Indirect njury

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  • Most important spinal cord injury indicator is the ……
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Mechanism

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When to suspect Spinal Injury?

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Sites of spinal cord injury

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Injuries of the vertebral column tend to cluster in …….

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Neurological level is at ……

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lowest segment with normal motor & sensory function.

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Why is level of spinal injury level hard to determine?

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  1. Muscles receive motor nerve supply from more than one level.
  2. Dermatomes have imprecise boundaries.
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Dx of Spinal Injury

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  • Clinically
  • Radiologically
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Dx of Spinal Injury

  • Clinically
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Dx of Spinal Injury

  • Inspection & Palpation
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Occiput to Coccyx

A. Tenderness.
B. Gap or Step.
C. Edema and bruising.
D. Spasm of associated muscles.

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Dx of Spinal Injury

  • Neurological Assessment
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A. Sensation.
B. Motor function.
C. Reflexes.
D. Rectal examination.

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Sensory Assessment in Spinal Trauma

  • C5
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Sensory Assessment in Spinal Trauma
- C6

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Sensory Assessment in Spinal Trauma
- C7

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Sensory Assessment in Spinal Trauma
- C8

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Sensory Assessment in Spinal Trauma

  • T1
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Sensory Assessment in Spinal Trauma

  • T3
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Sensory Assessment in Spinal Trauma

  • T4
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Sensory Assessment in Spinal Trauma

  • T8
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Sensory Assessment in Spinal Trauma

  • T10
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Sensory Assessment in Spinal Trauma

  • T12
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Sensory Assessment in Spinal Trauma

  • L2
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Sensory Assessment in Spinal Trauma

  • L3
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Sensory Assessment in Spinal Trauma

  • L4
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Sensory Assessment in Spinal Trauma

  • L5
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Sensory Assessment in Spinal Trauma

  • S1
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Sensory Assessment in Spinal Trauma

  • S2
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Sensory Assessment in Spinal Trauma

  • S3
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Sensory Assessment in Spinal Trauma

  • Grading
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Motor Assessment in Spinal Trauma

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Motor Assessment in Spinal Trauma

  • C5
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Deltoids / biceps

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Motor Assessment in Spinal Trauma

  • C6
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Wrist extensors

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Motor Assessment in Spinal Trauma

  • C7
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Elbow extensors

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Motor Assessment in Spinal Trauma

  • C8
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Finger flexors

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Motor Assessment in Spinal Trauma

  • T1
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Finger Abductors

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Motor Assessment in Spinal Trauma

  • L2
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Hip flexors

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Motor Assessment in Spinal Trauma

  • L3
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Knee extensors

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Motor Assessment in Spinal Trauma

  • L4
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  • Knee extensors
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Motor Assessment in Spinal Trauma

  • L5
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  • Ankle Dorsiflexion
  • Long toe extensors
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Motor Assessment in Spinal Trauma

  • S1
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  • Ankle Plantar Reflex
  • Long Toe Plantar Reflex
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Motor Assessment in Spinal Trauma

  • Grading
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Rectal Assessment in Spinal Trauma

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Rectal Assessment in Spinal Trauma

  • Tone
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the presence of rectal tone in itself does not indicate an incomplete injury.

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Rectal Assessment in Spinal Trauma

  • sensation
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Rectal Assessment in Spinal Trauma

  • Bulbocavernous Reflex
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Stimulus for Bulbocavernous Reflex

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  • Squeezing the glans penis or clitoris.
  • Tugging on an indwelling Foley catheter
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Center of Bulbocavernous Reflex

80
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Response of Bulbocavernous Reflex

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Anal Sphincter Contraction

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Significance of Present Bulbocavernous Reflex

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Significance of Absent Bulbocavernous Reflex

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Sacral Sparing in complete Spinal Cord Injury

  • Right or Wrong?
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Wrong, Absence of sensory and motor functions in the lowest sacral segments.

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How to Evaluate Sacral Sparing?

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Sacral Sparing in Incomplete Spinal Cord Injury

  • Right or Wrong?
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  • Preservation of sensory or motor function below the level of injury, including the lowest sacral segments
86
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Sacral sparing may include the triad of

A
  1. Perianal sensation.
  2. Rectal tone.
  3. Great toe flexion.
87
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Recoveryt of Spinal Shock

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Lasts even days till reflex neural arcs below the level recovers.

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CP of Spinal Shock

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  1. Loss anal tone, reflexes, autonomic control within 24-72 hr.
  2. Flaccid paralysis bladder & bowel.
  3. Priapism.
  4. Lasts even days till reflex neural arcs below the level recovers.
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Def of Spinal Shock

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  • Loss of sensation accompanied by motor paralysis with initial loss but gradual recovery of reflexes.
  • Transient physiological reflex depression of cord function
    ‘concussion of spinal cord’.
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Neurogenic Shock Causes ……

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Hemodynamic instability.

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Neurogenic Shock

  • Etiology
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  • Rostral cord injuries related to the loss of sympathetic tone to the peripheral vasculature and heart.
  • Lesions above D6 → Disruption of sympathetic outflow from D1-L2 → Unopposed vagal tone → Peripheral vasodilatation.
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Neurogenic Shock

  • CP
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  • Bradycardia
  • Hypotension
  • Hypothermia
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Every patient with:

  • blunt injury above the clavicle.
  • head injury.
  • Loss of consciousness.
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Should be considered to have a cervical spine injury until proven otherwise.

92
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Every patient who is involved in:
- a fall from a height.
- a high-speed deceleration accident.

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Should similarly be considered to have a thoracolumbar injury.

93
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All patients with multiple injuries ……

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  • Consider the presence of a vertebral column injury.
94
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Lesser injuries if they are followed by:
- Pain in the neck or back.
- Neurological symptoms in the limb.

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Arouse Suspicion

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Degrees of Spinal Trauma

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  • Complete
  • Incomplete
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Degrees of Spinal Trauma

  • Complete
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  • Flaccid paralysis
  • total loss of sensory & motor functions.
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Degrees of Spinal Trauma

  • Incomplete
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Incomplete - Mixed loss:
1. Anterior cord syndrome.
2. Posterior cord syndrome.
3. Central cord syndrome.
4. Brown Sequard’s syndrome.
5. Cauda equina syndrome.

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Etiology of Anterior Cord Syndrome

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  • Flexion rotational force to spine.
  • Due to Compression fracture of vertebral body or anterior dislocation.
  • Anterior spinal artery compression.
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CP of Anterior Cord Syndrome

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  • Loss of power
  • reduced pain and temperature below the lesion.
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Etiology of Posterior Cord Syndrome

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  1. Hyperextension injuries.
  2. Posterior vertebral body fracture.
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CP of Posterior Cord Syndrome

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  1. Loss of proprioception and vibration sense.
  2. Severe ataxia.
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Etiology of Central Cord Syndrome

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  • Older age with cervical spondylosis.
  • Hyperextension with minor trauma.
  • Cord is compressed by osteophytes from vertebral body against thick ligamentum flavum.
  • Damages the central cervical tract.
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CP of Central Cord Syndrome

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  1. UMN lesion to legs (spastic).
  2. LMN to arms (flaccid paralysis).

(NB: It affects Upper limbs more than lower limbs)

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Etiology of Brown Sequard Syndrome

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  1. Hemisection of the cord
  2. Stab injury and lateral mass fractures.
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CP of Brown Sequard Syndrome

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  • Contralateral (Uninjured) side has good power but absent pinprick and temperature 2-3 segments below the lesion.
  • Ipsilateral side has motor paralysis below the lesion.
106
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Spinothalamic tracts cross to opposite side of the cord 3 segments below.

107
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Pathophysiology in 1ry Neurological Damage

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  • Direct trauma, haematoma and SCIWORA < 8 yrs old.
  • In 4hrs - Infarction of white matter
  • In 8hrs - Infarction of grey matter and irreversible paralysis.
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Pathophysiology in 2ry Neurological Damage

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  1. Hypoxia.
  2. Hypoperfusion.
  3. Neurogenic shock.
  4. Spinal shock.
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SCIWORA

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Spinal Cord Injury Without Radiographic Abnormality

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Radiological Tool of Choice in Spinal Trauma

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Radiological Tool of Choice in Spinal Trauma

  • Suspectimg Level
A

Suspect the level from
- Examination
- Mode of trauma.

112
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Radiological Tool of Choice in Spinal Trauma

  • What to Start With?
113
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Radiological Tool of Choice in Spinal Trauma

  • If Suspicious
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Radiological Tool of Choice in Spinal Trauma

  • Indications of MRI
A
  1. Positive CT.
  2. high suspicion even with negative CT.
  3. Planning of surgery.
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Immobilization in Spinal Trauma

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Def of Whiplash Injury

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Sudden hyperextension and flexion.

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CP of Whiplash Injury

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  • Increasing neck pain for the first 24 hours.
  • Anterior longitudinal ligaments are torn causes dysphagia.
  • Forward flexion against resistance is painful.
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Recovery in Whiplash Injury

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90% are asymptomatic after 2 years.

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Types of Vertebral Fractures

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  • Compression Fractures
  • Burst Fractures
  • Seatbelt Type Fracture
  • Dislocation Fracture
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Compression Fractures

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Compression Fractures

  • Types
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Burst Fractures

  • Types
123
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Seatbelt Type Injury

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Dislocation Fracture

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Compare between Stable & Instable Injury in terms of

  • Displacment of vertebral components by normal movements
  • Risk of neural damage
126
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Treat as unstable until proven otherwise.

127
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Def of Spinal Instability

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  • The loss of the ability of the spine under physiologic loads to maintain relationships between vertebrae
  • in such a way that there is neither damage nor subsequent irritation to the spinal cord or nerve roots.
128
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How to Suspect Spinal instability?

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  • SLICS
  • TLICS
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SLICS

130
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SLICS

  • Morphology (Immediate Stability)
131
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SLICS

  • Discoligamentous Complex (DLC)

(Long-term Stability)

132
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SLICS

  • Neurological status
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SLICS

  • Interpretation
134
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TLICS

  • Morphology (Immediate Stability)
135
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TLICS

  • Posterior Ligamentous Complex (PLC)

(Integrity Long-term stability)

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TLICS

  • Neurological Status
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TLICS

  • Interpretatiion
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Objectives of Defenitive TTT of Spinal Trauma

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  1. To preserve neurological function.
  2. To stabilize the spine.
  3. To rehabilitate the patient.
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indications for urgent surgical stabilization in spinal Trauma

A
  • An unstable fracture with Progressive neurological deficit

and/or

  • MRI signs of likely further neurological deterioration.
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Emergency TTT in Spinal Trauma

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Emergency TTT in Spinal Trauma

  • ABCDE
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Emergency TTT in Spinal Trauma

  • Methylpednisolone
A

Loading:
- 30mg/kg iv bolus over 15 min immediately.

Maintainence:
- 5.4 mg/kg/h infusion over 23 hrs.

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Acute Management of Spinal Cord Injury

A
  • Immobilization
144
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Emergency TTT in Spinal Trauma

  • Immobilization
A

Cervical & Thoracolumbar

145
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Emergency TTT in Spinal Trauma

  • Cervical Immobilization
146
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Indications of Cervical Immobilization

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  • Known or suspected cervical spine injury
  • Comatose or intoxicated at the scene of injury
147
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Methods of Cervical Immobilization

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  • Cervical Orthrosis (Or Sandbags)
  • Gardber-Wells Tongs
148
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Methods of Thoracolumbar Immobilization

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  • Backbord
  • Logrolling
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Thoracolumbar Immobilization

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Objectives (Indications) of surgical Intervention in Spinal Trauma

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  1. Stabilization of fractures not likely to heal.
  2. Decompression of neural elements.
  3. Early mobilization:
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Objectives (Indications) of surgical Intervention in Spinal Trauma

  • Stabilization
A

of fractures not likely to heal.

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Objectives (Indications) of surgical Intervention in Spinal Trauma

  • Decompression
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of neural elements.

153
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Objectives (Indications) of surgical Intervention in Spinal Trauma

  • Early Mobolization
154
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Early surgical stabilization of the unstable spine may help to ……

A

A. Prevent prolonged bed rest complications (atelectasis, pneumonia, DVT, etc.)

B. It also allows the patient to begin rehabilitation earlier.

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Surgical Intervention in Spinal Trauma

  • techniques
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Surgical Intervention in Spinal Trauma

  • Fusion
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Surgical Intervention in Spinal Trauma

  • Internal Fixation
A

(instrumentation).
* Internal fixation is not a substitute for fusion.

  • Screws, hooks, cages.
158
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Surgical Intervention in Spinal Trauma

  • Decompression
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of spinal canal

(Laminectomy)

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