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The Efficacy Of Surgical Decompression Before 24 Hours Versus 24 To 72 Hours In Patients With Spinal Cord Injury From T1 To L1--With Specific Consideration On Ethics: A Randomized Controlled Trial., Vafa Rahimi-Movaghar, Soheil Saadat, Alexander R Vaccaro, Seyed Mohammad Ghodsi, Mohammad Samadian, Arya Sheykhmozaffari, Seyed Mohammad Safdari, Bahram Keshmirian
The Efficacy Of Surgical Decompression Before 24 Hours Versus 24 To 72 Hours In Patients With Spinal Cord Injury From T1 To L1--With Specific Consideration On Ethics: A Randomized Controlled Trial., Vafa Rahimi-Movaghar, Soheil Saadat, Alexander R Vaccaro, Seyed Mohammad Ghodsi, Mohammad Samadian, Arya Sheykhmozaffari, Seyed Mohammad Safdari, Bahram Keshmirian
Department of Neurosurgery Faculty Papers
BACKGROUND: There is no clear evidence that early decompression following spinal cord injury (SCI) improves neurologic outcome. Such information must be obtained from randomized controlled trials (RCTs). To date no large scale RCT has been performed evaluating the timing of surgical decompression in the setting of thoracolumbar spinal cord injury. A concern for many is the ethical dilemma that a delay in surgery may adversely effect neurologic recovery although this has never been conclusively proven. The purpose of this study is to compare the efficacy of early (before 24 hours) verse late (24-72 hours) surgical decompression in terms of neurological …