Why the study?
How does cardiovascular control and sympathetic nervous activity respond to stimuli in recently injured tetraplegics in spinal shock compared to chronic tetraplegics and normal subjects?
Population
17 subjects total: 5 tetraplegic patients with physiologically complete cervical spinal cord transections…
Comparison
Physiological testing including bladder… vs Responses compared between recently injured…
Design
Cross-sectional
Authors
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Absent reflexes in acute tetraplegic shock warrant hemodynamic monitoring; hypothesis-generating for sympathetic recovery timelines.
How does cardiovascular control and sympathetic nervous activity respond to stimuli in recently injured tetraplegics in spinal shock compared to chronic tetraplegics and normal subjects?
Recently injured tetraplegic patients in spinal shock exhibit diminished resting sympathetic nervous activity and absent spinal sympathetic cardiovascular reflexes, which recover in the chronic phase.
Mathias et al. (1979) studied this question.
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