Swallowing Disorders in Severe Brain Injury in the Arousal Phase.

The objective of this study was to determine the clinical characteristics of swallowing disorders in severe brain injury in the arousal phase after coma. Between December 1, 2013 and June 30, 2014, eleven patients with severe acquired brain injury who were admitted to rehabilitation center (Male 81.8 %; 40.

What are the perspectives for ventilated tetraplegics? A French retrospective study of 108 patients with cervical spinal cord injury.

Objective: Tetraplegic patients are often difficult to manage in intensive care units (ICU). The aim of our study was to calculate the incidence of patients in ICU with cervical spinal cord injury with special focus on tetraplegic patients on ventilation support and their future perspectives.

Materials And Methods: This retrospective study included patients with cervical spinal cord injury in Upper Normandy, between 2002 and 2012.

Physical and rehabilitation medicine (PRM) care pathways: adults with severe traumatic brain injury.

This document is part of a series of guidelines documents designed by the French Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine Society (SOFMER) and the French Federation of PRM (FEDMER). These reference documents focus on a particular pathology (here patients with severe TBI). They describe for each given pathology patients' clinical and social needs, PRM care objectives and necessary human and material resources of the pathology-dedicated pathway.

Physical and rehabilitation medicine (PRM) care pathways: "spinal cord injury".

This document is part of a series of documents designed by the French Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine Society (SOFMER) and the French Federation of PRM (FEDMER). These documents describe the needs for or a specific type of patients; PRM care objectives, human and material resources to be implemented, chronology as well as expected outcomes. "Care pathways in PRM" is a short document designed to enable the reader (physicians, decision-maker, administrator, lawyer or finance manager) to quickly apprehend the needs of these patients and the available therapeutic care structures for proper organization and pricing of these activities.

[Continent cystostomy: monocentric experience].

Aims: To evaluate the feasibility, the efficiency, the results of continent cystostomy in adult population.

Material And Methods: Retrospective study of patients who underwent a continent cystostomy between 1987 and 2011.

Results: Forty-three patients underwent a continent cystostomy (13 men and 30 women).