and Spinal Cord Injuries
Neurosurgery 2013; 72 (supplement 2): 1-259
Neurosurgery 2013; 72 (supplement 2): 1-259
Daniel Resnick foreword: "On behalf of the AANS/CNS Joint Guidelines Committee, I am pleased to introduce the updated Guidelines for the Management of Acute Cervical Spine and Spinal Cord Injury. This work describes the “state of the literature ”with regard to the treatment of patients with cervical spine and spinal cord injuries and is a useful guide to help clinicians make important decisions in the care of these patients. As with all evidence-based guidelines, recommendations made cannot exceed the strength of the literature, and where there is a lack of evidence or disagreement in the literature, strong recommendations cannot be made. These recommendations represent a foundation for one leg of the “three-legged stool” of evidence-based practice. Having a well-described and vetted summary of the available medical evidence helps to structure decisions also dependent upon clinical judgment and patient desires"...