Recognition and effective management of autonomic dysreflexia in spinal cord injuries.

Abstract:

:Autonomic dysreflexia is a potentially life-threatening hypertensive medical emergency that occurs most often in spinal cord-injured individuals with spinal lesions at or above the mid-thoracic spinal cord level. It is a condition that remains poorly recognised outside of spinal cord injury centres, which may result in adverse outcomes including mortality from potentially delayed diagnosis and treatment. Acute autonomic dysreflexia is characterised by severe paroxysmal hypertension associated with throbbing headaches, profuse sweating, nasal stuffiness, flushing of the skin above the level of the lesion, bradycardia, apprehension and anxiety, which is sometimes accompanied by cognitive impairment. The key to effective management is prevention of the condition, by recognition and avoidance of factors that initiate the condition. When it occurs, immediate recognition and reversal of trigger factors along with prompt administration of pharmacological treatment is of paramount importance in order to prevent complications, which include intracranial and retinal haemorrhage, convulsions, cardiac irregularities and death. Promising data from recent animal studies may hold the key to future treatment options.

authors

Khastgir J,Drake MJ,Abrams P

doi

10.1517/14656566.8.7.945

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2007-05-01 00:00:00

pages

945-56

issue

7

eissn

1465-6566

issn

1744-7666

journal_volume

8

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