ISCoS Textbook on Comprehensive Management of Spinal Cord Injuries

Recognizing the need of a comprehensive resource addressing management of Spinal Cord Injury (SCI) as a team based approach, ISCoS is compiling “ISCoS Textbook on Comprehensive Management of Spinal Cord Injuries”. The proposed textbook will be a comprehensive guide containing information for all disciplines involved in SCI management (doctors, physiotherapists, occupational therapists, nurses, vocational counselor, psychologist, assistive technologist, orthotists and social worker) with additional information for doctors.

Lippincott Williams and Wilkins is the publisher.The textbook is proposed to be launched during the ISCoS Annual Meeting at Montreal, Canada (14-16 May 2015).

The available textbooks cater to one of the several health professionals involved in management of SCI.This became obvious when ISCoS was compiling elearnSCI.org, a web based resource on comprehensive management of SCI.

The textbook aims at presenting the holistic approach for the management of SCI by the whole team. The simple and comprehendible presentation will help all disciplines to easily assimilate the knowledge. It will also have illustrations and figures to make text user friendly.

The textbook will have various new topics which are not covered in the currently available textbooks like:

Pre-hospital care
Assistive technology
Psychosocial Management
Pre-discharge planning
Management of tetraplegic hand
Nursing in SCI
Nutritional management in SCI
Outcome measures
Neglected SCI
Research advances in research
Special consideration: geriatric, issue specific with women and children, challenges of management in developing economies
Prevention of SCI
Active rehabilitation after SCI

Though elearnSCI.org is a valuable tool for information dissemination, like other e-learning resources, it cannot replace the traditional teachings and textbooks. The two resources will complement each other in providing knowledge on comprehensive management of spinal cord injury.

The textbook will comprise of 80 Chapters in 10 different sections. 66 experts of ISCoS and affiliated societies from across the globe have been involved in authoring the chapters. The textbook is expected to have approximately 1400 pages.

The list of contents and names of authors are listed below.

For Further Details Contact:

Dr H S Chhabra

Editor – In Chief

Email: issicon@isiconline.org

ISCoS Text Book on “Comprehensive Management of Spinal Cord Injuries”

Sections	No.	Chapters	Authors
I. Introduction	1	SCI Management – Historical Perspective	W El Masri
	2	Pathophysiology of Spinal injury (Tumors, infections, vascular, Nutritional and other diseases	John Steeves
	3	Demographic profile of Spinal cord Injury	Bonne Lee

II. Acute Management

II A. Prehospital & Acute Care	4	Pre-hospital care	Brian Gardner
	5	Clinical assessments in Spinal Cord Injury	Sergio Aito
	6	Imaging in Spinal Cord Injury	Yatish Agarwal
	7	Acute care	John Street

II B. Management of Vertebral Fracture	8	Principles of management of vertebral fractures	Patrick Kluger
	9	Classifications of upper cervical spine fractures	Alex Vaccaro
	10	Management of upper cervical spine fractures	S S Kale
	11	Classifications system for lower cervical spine fractures	Michael Haak
	12	Management of lower cervical spine fractures	Michael Haak
	13	Classifications of Thoracic, Thoracolumbar and lumbar fractures	Oner F C
	14	Management of Thoracic and Thoracolumbar fractures	Alex Vaccaro
	15	Management of lumbar fractures	H S Chhabra
	16	Management of sacral fractures	Carlo Bellabarba
	17	Surgical Management of Neglected Spinal Cord Injuries	H S Chhabra and Raghavendra
Management of Pathological Vertebral Fractures	18	Osteoporotic vertebral fractures	S Katoh
	19	Vertebral lesions due to spinal tumours	Rainer Abel
	20	Vertebral lesions due to spinal infections	Rainer Abel
Management of vertebral fractures : special considerations	21	Ankylosing Spinal Disorders	J J Verlaan
	22	Spinal Cord Injury with Polytrauma	Rajasekaran
	23	Paediatric Spinal Injuries	Tarcisio Barros
	24	Geriartric Spinal Injuries	H S Chhabra, Vivek Mittal and Arena D’Souza

II C. Management of associated injuries	25	Associated Injuries	Roland Thietje
II C. Management of associated injuries	26	Longterm Ventilation and Weaning of SCI patients	Roland Thietje

III. Multidisciplinary Management	27	Predicting outcome in Spinal Cord Injury	Giorgio Scivoletto
	28	Team based care	Ruth Marshall & Nazirah Hasnan
	29	Management of Neurogenic Bowel	Sri Kumar
	30	Management of Neurogenic Bladder	J J Wyndaele
	31	Respiratory Management	Andrei Krassioukov
	32	Cardiovascular Management	Nan Liu
	33	Sexuality and Fertility	Fin Biering Sorensen
	34	Nutritional management	Apichana Kovindha
	35	Physiotherapy	Lisa Harvey, J Glinsky and M Sommers
	36	Occupational Therapy	M J Mulcahey
	37	Orthotic Management	M J Mulcahey
	38	Assistive Technology	Rory Cooper
	39	Management of Tetraplegic Hand	PradeepThumbikat
	40	Nursing and SCI	Debbie Green
	41	Active rehabilitation	Federico Montero
	42	Vocational rehabilitation	Ramachanan & Kamala Shankar

IV. Psychosocial Management	43	Psychological Adjustment for persons with Spinal Cord Injury and their families	Stanley Ducharme & Divya Parashar
	44	Psychosocial issues for care givers of persons with Spinal Cord Injury	Susan Charlifue
	45	Coping effectively with Spinal Cord Injury	Paul Kennedy
	46	The management of psychotropic medications for persons with Spinal Cord Injury	Shashi Bhushan
	47	Peer counseling – a holistic psycho-social rehabilitation approach	Terry Chase

V. Consequences and Complications	48	Dermatological Complications	Renee Maschke
	49	Musculoskeletal Complications	Herndon Murray
	50	Pulmonary Complications	U Singh
	51	Cardiovascular Complications	Nan Liu
	52	Gastrointestinal Complication	H S Chhabra
	53	Genitourinary tract Complication	J J Wyndaele
	54	Autonomic Dysreflexia	Andrei Krassioukov
	55	Pain in Spinal Cord Injury	Philip Siddall and James Middleton
	56	Spasticity in Spinal Cord Injury	Müfit Akyüz

VI. Pre-discharge Planning & follow-up	57	Pre-discharge Planning	Ruth Marshall
	58	Community Inclusion	Cyril Siriwardane
	59	Follow-up after Spinal Cord Injury	NazirahHasnan
	60	Aging with Spinal Cord Injury	Susan Charliefue & Savic Gordana
	61	Outcome measures	Marcel Post

VII. Prevention	62	Prevention of Spinal Cord Injury	Douglas Brown
	63	Prevention of Spinal Cord Injury due to RTCs	M Fitzharris
	64	Prevention of Spinal Cord Injury due to Falls	H S Chhabra
	65	Prevention of Spinal Cord Injury due to Water accidents	Herndon Murray
	66	Prevention of Spinal Cord Injury due to Sports injuries	Andrei Krassioukov
	67	Prevention of Spinal Cord Injury due to Fall of load from height	Kamil Yazicioglu
	68	Prevention of Spinal Cord Injury due to Violence Activities	Eric Weerts
	69	Prevention of Non Traumatic Spinal Cord Injury	Peter New

VIII. Special considerations	70	Spinal Cord Injury Management – Consumer Perspective	Jane Horsewell
	71	Neglected Spinal Cord Injury	H S Chhabra
	72	Special Consideration for rehabilitation of Paediatric SCI	Lawrence Vogel
	73	Special Consideration for rehabilitation of Geriatric SCI	Tajima & Furusawa
	74	Issues Specific with Women with SCI	Carlotte Kiekens
	75	Challenges of Management in Developing Economies	H S Chhabra

IX.Translational Research	76	Spinal Cord Repair	John Steeves
	77	Translational research
	78	Current therapeutic studies

X. ISCoS Programme for SCI management	79	ElearnSCI.org: A global educational initiative of International Spinal Cord Society (ISCoS)	H S Chhabra/Lisa Harvey/Stephen Muldoon
X. ISCoS Programme for SCI management	80	International Spinal Cord Injury Data Sets	Fin Biering Sorensen