Publications by authors named "Eija Ahoniemi"
Article Synopsis
- Traumatic spinal cord injuries mainly occur in men aged 16-30, highlighting the need for traffic safety and behavior modification to prevent such injuries.
- Key aspects of patient care include safe transfer to hospitals, diagnostic imaging (like CT and MRI), and assessing injury using the AIS questionnaire.
- Treatment involves early surgical intervention and ongoing rehabilitation that requires a multi-professional team, starting from the emergency room and continuing for life.
Objective: Mortality, cause of death and risk indicators for death among patients with traumatic spinal cord injury were investigated over a 30-year period.
Design: A cross-sectional study with retrospective data.
Subjects: All patients (n = 1647) aged 16 years and over who had sustained traumatic spinal cord injury during the period 1976-2005, who were admitted to Käpylä Rehabilitation Centre, Helsinki, Finland, participated in the study.
Objective: To investigate the occurrence and severity of traumatic brain injury in patients with traumatic spinal cord injury.
Design: Cross-sectional study with prospective neurological, neuropsychological and neuroradiological examinations and retrospective medical record review.
Patients: Thirty-one consecutive, traumatic spinal cord injury patients on their first post-acute rehabilitation period in a national rehabilitation centre.