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Orthopaedics
Subaxial Cervical Spine Injuries (AO Based)
Built from AO Surgery Reference: Spine Trauma, Degenerative, Tumors and Deformities (AO Foundation)
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Overview
- Introduction
- Subaxial cervical injuries: overview
- Subaxial cervical injuries: overview
- Surgical anatomy and biomechanics
- Vertebral artery anatomy
- Vertebral artery anatomy
- Biomechanics of the cervicothoracic junction
- Biomechanics of the cervicothoracic junction
- Clinical and neurological assessment
- Primary survey in suspected cervical injury
- Primary survey in suspected cervical injury
- Neurogenic versus hypovolemic shock
- Neurogenic versus hypovolemic shock
- INSCI key muscles
- INSCI key muscles
- Sensation, reflexes and sacral sparing
- Sensation, reflexes and sacral sparing
- Incomplete spinal cord syndromes
- Incomplete spinal cord syndromes
- AO Spine subaxial cervical classification
- Morphology types A, B and C
- Type A injuries
- Type A injuries
- Type B and type C injuries
- Type B and type C injuries
- Facet injury descriptors
- Facet injury descriptors
- Neurological status grades
- Case-specific modifiers
- Case-specific modifiers
- Building the full classification code
- Injury types as drawn by AO
- Injury types as drawn by AO (cont.)
- Treatment of type A injuries
- Treatment options for A0 and A1
- Treatment options for A0 and A1
- Treatment options for A2 fractures
- Treatment options for A2 fractures
- Treatment options for A3 and A4 fractures
- Decision logic for A3 and A4 fractures
- Treatment of type B and C injuries
- B1 posterior bony tension band injury
- B1 posterior bony tension band injury
- Treatment options for B2 injuries
- Treatment options for B2 injuries
- B3 anterior tension band injury
- B3 anterior tension band injury
- Treatment options for type C injuries
- Treatment options for type C injuries
- Anterior versus posterior surgery
- Anterior versus posterior surgery
- Combined anterior and posterior (360)
- Nonoperative treatment
- Collars and orthoses
- Collars and orthoses
- Halo ring application
- Halo ring application
- Halo traction and closed reduction
- Halo traction and closed reduction
- Operative techniques
- Supine and prone positioning
- Supine and prone positioning
- Anterior approach to the cervical spine
- Anterior approach to the cervical spine
- Indications for anterior decompression
- Indications for anterior decompression
- Anterior discectomy technique
- Anterior discectomy technique
- Corpectomy technique
- Corpectomy technique
- Anterior reduction of locked facets
- Anterior reduction of locked facets
- Anterior reconstruction and plating
- Anterior reconstruction and plating
- Pitfalls in anterior plating
- Pitfalls in anterior plating
- Posterior approach to the cervical spine
- Posterior approach to the cervical spine
- Reduction of facet dislocation
- Reduction of facet dislocation
- Lateral mass screw (Magerl technique)
- Lateral mass screw (Magerl technique)
- Lateral mass versus pedicle screws
- Lateral mass versus pedicle screws
- Limits of posterior-only fixation
- Limits of posterior-only fixation
- Posterior fixation across the CTJ
- Posterior fixation across the CTJ
- Special situations
- Fractures in the ankylosed spine
- Fractures in the ankylosed spine
- Cervical spine injuries in children
Aftercare and complications
- Aftercare after surgical stabilization
- Aftercare after surgical stabilization
- Complications of anterior surgery
- Complications of anterior surgery
- Vertebral artery injury
- Vertebral artery injury
- Causes of postoperative deformity
- Causes of postoperative deformity
- Correction of posttraumatic kyphosis
- Correction of posttraumatic kyphosis
- Take-home messages
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