Acute spinal cord and head injury: case report and discussion of cardiac, respiratory and endocrine abnormalities
Johnson, C.D.; Perea López, R.M.; Rodríguez, L.
Boletin de la Asociacion Medica de Puerto Rico 90(4-6): 95-101
1998
ISSN/ISBN: 0004-4849 PMID: 9866278 Document Number: 6113
We report a male patient who after a fall suffered high cervical spinal cord and head (cerebral) injuries. These injuries led to spinal shock, marked sinus bradycardia and asystolic cardiac and respiratory arrests, recalcitrant central traumatic diabetes insipidus, and death within approximately seven weeks. Temporary transvenous cardiac pacing proved useful in the management of this patient.
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