Workshop: Defining and Grading of a Spinal Unit which holds relevance for both developed and emerging countries: can we replicate the trauma unit model?
Tracks
Track 1
| Tuesday, September 1, 2020 |
| 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM |
| Auditorium - Track 1 |
Speaker
Dr Harvinder Singh Chhabra
Chief Of Spine Service & Medical Director
Indian Spinal Injury Centre
Defining and Grading of a Spinal Unit which holds relevance for both developed and emerging countries: can we replicate the trauma unit model?
Abstract
Speakers:
• Dr H S Chhabra*
• Dr Rainer Abel
• Dr Michael Fehlings
• Dr Francois Theron
*Chairperson
Learning Objectives:
1. Identifying different existing models of spinal injury services
2. Identifying requirements of man power and capabilities/other resources for a model spinal unit
3. Developing grading system for Spinal Units based on available resources and capabilities
Participants: Any level is suitable.
Target audience: Spine surgeons, Physiatrists, All rehabilitation disciplines (including Physiotherapists, Occupational therapists, Psychologists, Assistive technologists), Nurses, Consumers, Policy makers, Hospital Administrators
Abstract:
Humanity will ever be indebted to the guide and inspiration of great professionals like Sir Ludwig Guttmann, who had to overcome so many seemingly overwhelming issues to accomplish the noteworthy and nowadays indeed anticipated results in the management of persons with spinal cord injury. In the past few years/decades great advances have been made in the medical and nursing management, rehabilitation and resettlement of patients with serious spinal neural disease and injury. Special spinal units have played an important part in these advances.
Despite the revolutionisation of SCI management, there is no global consensus on a standardized definition of a spinal unit. There are spinal injury services where acute care including surgical management and comprehensive rehabilitation is done in one facility. At the other end of the spectrum are settings where acute management, including surgery where needed, is done in one facility and the patient is then transferred to a different facility for rehabilitation. Based on the resources available and their capabilities, there is a grading system for trauma units. However there is no such grading available for spinal units. Spinal Trauma Study Group is doing an exercise to define a spinal unit and develop a grading system which would hold relevance both in developed and emerging countries. The different models of existing spinal units and the STSG definition of spinal unit as well as grading system will be discussed in the workshop.
• Dr H S Chhabra*
• Dr Rainer Abel
• Dr Michael Fehlings
• Dr Francois Theron
*Chairperson
Learning Objectives:
1. Identifying different existing models of spinal injury services
2. Identifying requirements of man power and capabilities/other resources for a model spinal unit
3. Developing grading system for Spinal Units based on available resources and capabilities
Participants: Any level is suitable.
Target audience: Spine surgeons, Physiatrists, All rehabilitation disciplines (including Physiotherapists, Occupational therapists, Psychologists, Assistive technologists), Nurses, Consumers, Policy makers, Hospital Administrators
Abstract:
Humanity will ever be indebted to the guide and inspiration of great professionals like Sir Ludwig Guttmann, who had to overcome so many seemingly overwhelming issues to accomplish the noteworthy and nowadays indeed anticipated results in the management of persons with spinal cord injury. In the past few years/decades great advances have been made in the medical and nursing management, rehabilitation and resettlement of patients with serious spinal neural disease and injury. Special spinal units have played an important part in these advances.
Despite the revolutionisation of SCI management, there is no global consensus on a standardized definition of a spinal unit. There are spinal injury services where acute care including surgical management and comprehensive rehabilitation is done in one facility. At the other end of the spectrum are settings where acute management, including surgery where needed, is done in one facility and the patient is then transferred to a different facility for rehabilitation. Based on the resources available and their capabilities, there is a grading system for trauma units. However there is no such grading available for spinal units. Spinal Trauma Study Group is doing an exercise to define a spinal unit and develop a grading system which would hold relevance both in developed and emerging countries. The different models of existing spinal units and the STSG definition of spinal unit as well as grading system will be discussed in the workshop.
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