Neural Repair and Regeneration after Spinal Cord Injury and Spine Trauma

Features:

• Contains contributions by international authors
• Covers recent clinical trial advancements and findings and updates on ongoing trials
• Presents an overview of clinical practice guidelines for the management of traumatic spinal cord injury featured
• Provides the reader with insights regarding the translation of research from bench to bedside and the skills needed to understand the translational pathway using real-life examples

Table Of Contents:

1. Anatomy (touch on both spine trauma and SCI)
2. Epidemiology
3. Classification Systems: Spine Trauma
4. Classification Systems: SCI
5. Outcome Measures
6. Imaging: Spine Trauma
7. Imaging: SCI (include advanced imaging techniques)
8. Intraoperative imaging and Image Guidance
9. Spine Trauma Management Issues: Upper C-spine
10. Spine Trauma Management Issues: C-spine
11. Spine Trauma Management Issues: Thoracic and Lumbar
12. Spine Trauma Management Issues: Sacrum
13. Spine Trauma Management Issues: Polytrauma
14. Spine Trauma Management Issues: Geriatric
15. Spine Trauma- areas of controversy and emerging concepts
16. Traumatic Central Cord Injury
17. SCI Management: Pathophysiology
18. SCI Management: Role and Timing of Surgical Intervention
19. SCI Management: ICU Management (including MPSS) + Drugs
20. SCI Management: Rehabilitation
21. SCI Management: Economic Impact
22. Complications
23. Neurochemical Biomarkers of Acute Spinal Cord Injury
24. Clinical Trials: Drugs
25. Clinical Trials: Regenerative Approaches
26. Clinical Trials: Rehabilitation Approaches
27. Translational Perspective: Neuroprotective Strategies for Traumatic Spinal Cord Injury
28. Translational Perspective: Neuroregenerative Strategies for Traumatic Spinal Cord Injury
29. Emerging Concepts in the clinical management of SCI for the future
30. Translational Research in Spinal Cord Injury: What is in the Future?