Pathology

Guidelines for the Management of Acute Cervical Spine and Spinal Cord Injuries

SpineUniverse is proud to provide a conduit for the dissemination of this important project which was developed under the auspices of and with the support of the Joint Section on Disorders of the Spine and Peripheral Nerves of the AANS/CNS. The group reflected expertise in spinal neurosurgery, neurotrauma, and clinical epidemiology. The Guidelines for Management of Acute Cervical Spine and Spinal Cord Injuries were developed by the following group:

 

Co-Chairs
Mark N. Hadley, MD, FACS
Professor, University of Alabama at Birmingham
Beverly C. Walters, MD, M.Sc., FRCSC, FACS
Associate Professor, Brown Medical School

Author Group
Paul A. Grabb, MD
Associate Professor, University of Alabama at Birmingham
Nelson M. Oyesiku, MD
Associate Professor, Emory University
Gregory J. Przybylski, MD
Associate Professor, Northwestern Medical School
Daniel K. Resnick, MD
Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin - Madison
Timothy C. Ryken, MD
Assistant Professor, University of Iowa

Trauma Guideline Download in PDF Format
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The entire file is a document in excess of 550 pages, and will take up to 30 minutes to download on a standard modem connection. You may wish to connect from a fast Internet connection. To download and save the entire project with bookmarks, right click on this link and choose Save Target As....

For individual chapters, see below.
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For the convenience of physicians, we have broken the project into its component parts.

To quickly view the individual chapters, use the following links. The individual chapters are smaller and will download more rapidly.

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Last Updated: 07/11/2007
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