Open AccessBlood Alcohol Concentration Is Associated With Improved AIS Motor Score After Spinal Cord Injury
Author(s) -
Josephine Volovetz,
Mary Joan Roach,
Argyrios Stampas,
Gregory Nemunaitis,
Michael L. Kelly
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
topics in spinal cord injury rehabilitation
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.597
H-Index - 35
eISSN - 1945-5763
pISSN - 1082-0744
DOI - 10.46292/sci20-00014
Subject(s) - medicine , spinal cord injury , injury severity score , glasgow coma scale , proprioception , logistic regression , confidence interval , poison control , rehabilitation , trauma center , spinal cord , physical therapy , injury prevention , physical medicine and rehabilitation , retrospective cohort study , anesthesia , emergency medicine , psychiatry
To investigate the relationship between blood alcohol concentration (BAC) and neurologic recovery after traumatic spinal cord injury (TSCI) using standardized outcome measures from the International Standards for the Neurological Classification of Spinal Cord Injury (ISNCSCI) examination.