SCI Publications

Study compares injured adolescents presenting to an emergency room with a positive serum alcohol concentration (SAC+) with those injured adolescents with a negative serum alcohol concentration (SAC-). Retrospective data was used from 176 injured patients (ages 13-18), who were admitted consecutively to a university hospital for two entire years ...

Discusses the key rehabilitation outcomes that should be measured to adequately document the impact of rehabilitation in a person's life. The author proposes a model of rehabilitation outcomes that builds on the concepts of impairment, disability, and handicap from the World Health Organization's model of disablement. The model identifies ...

Review of the literature on pressure ulcer development and clinical management. The following topics are discussed: 1) etiologic factors; 2) persons at risk for pressure ulcer development; 3) systems for the description/classification of pressure ulcers; 4) pathologic tissue changes; 5) complications; 6) medical management; 7) treatment of the ulcer; ...

Article highlights the role of alcohol use in trauma. Clinical studies that explore the effects of acute and chronic alcohol use on the response to injury are discussed. Potential mechanisms, both physiologic and cellular, by which alcohol may enhance injury are reviewed. Advances in the identification of alcohol abuse ...

Study examined the relationship between time and required intrathecal baclofen dose necessary for keeping spasticity at an acceptable level. The study also investigated whether tolerance was a factor in the study subjects. Subjects were 18 individuals with spinal cord injury (SCI) who had undergone continuous intrathecal baclofen infusion pump ...

Study of 9,135 spinal cord injured persons identifies risk factors and causes for mortality over an eleven year period. Primary cause of death for the 9.3% of the studied group that died was related to diseases of the respiratory system. The causes of death are correlated to age groups, extent ...

Study examines the health status of persons as they age who had spinal cord injuries many years ago. Health status data collected yearly on persons (N= 11,117) who had a traumatic spinal cord injuries between 1973 and 1989 is analyzed. The most significant predictor of health status is current age, ...

This study investigated the suspicion that a significant proportion of individuals having spinal cord injury (SCI) also sustain a concomitant undiagnosed occult head injury during the trauma accident. The criteria for high risk of head injury included the following: (1) quadriplegia with high energy deceleration accident, (2) loss of ...