• Chinese
  • English
  • French
  • German
  • Mongolian
  • Portuguese
  • Russian
  • Spanish
  • Ukrainian
A A A
Contact Us

How to use this Website?

This website is for medical and paramedical professionals working in the field of spinal cord injuries. It contains learning modules for the whole team as well as for doctors, nurses, physiotherapists, occupational therapists, assistive technologists, social workers, psychologists and peer counsellors. The modules are intended for medical and paramedical students and junior clinicians. Others who have yet not assimilated sufficient knowledge on comprehensive management.

Prevention of pressure ulcers

  1. Spinal Cord Medicine - NCBI Bookshelf. In.
  2. Andrychuk MA. Pressure ulcers: causes, risk factors, assessment, and intervention. Orthopaedic nursing / National Association of Orthopaedic Nurses 1998; 17: 65-81; quiz 82-83-65-81; quiz 82-83.
  3. Karlet MC. Acute management of the patient with spinal cord injury. International journal of trauma nursing 2001; 7: 43-48.
  4. Laskowski-Jones L. Acute SCI. How to minimize the damage. The American journal of nursing 1993; 93: 22-31; quiz 32-22-31; quiz 32.
  5. Remsburg RE, Bennett RG. Pressure-relieving strategies for preventing and treating pressure sores. Clinics in geriatric medicine 1997; 13: 513-541.
  6. Yu D. A crash course in spinal cord injury. Postgraduate medicine 1998; 104: 109-110, 113-116, 119-122-109-110, 113-116, 119-122.