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Anaesthetic Management of Acute Cervical Spinal Cord Injury during Pregnancy

Incidence of traumatic spinal cord injury is 11.000 per year. 55% of injuries occur between the ages of 16 and 33, with 18% of patients being women of reproductive age. Diagnostic and early spinal decompression with preservation mean arterial pressure in order to improve spinal cord perfusion as well as high progesterone level in pregnancy as neuroprotective and anti-inflammatory effect have a leading place in neurological recovery and clinical outcome. We present a case of a patient in her 17th week of pregnancy who received a luxation fracture of C5 and C6 vertebra and tetraplegia as consequence of being a passenger in a road accident in which the early operating treatment and adequate anesthetic procedure led to good clinical outcomes with completely neurological recovery

Acute spinal cord injury ; Pregnancy ; Mean arterial pressure ; Eearly surgical decompression

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