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So let's wrap this video series up.
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For spinal cord injuries, prehospital and emergency room priorities are to maintain the airway
and prevent secondary or further injury of the spinal cord.
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Now, we add that extra letter for you, ABC and D.
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Remember, airway, breathing, circulation, those are the same and everything.
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The D was to remind you about disability, the neurological status and not making that spinal cord injury any worse.
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Now when you're thinking through the clinical manifestations of a spinal cord injury,
you wanna think that you can have problems developed in the neurological system, motor and sensory,
the heart, the lungs, GI and the urinary systems.
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So in order to do excellent care for this patient,
you wanna be thinking through each one of those systems
and the interventions that are most appropriate.
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Spinal cord injury patients also develop complications of immobility and pain management.
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So these will take a little longer to develop.
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You wanna be on the alert to watch for signs to assess in both of these areas.
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Thank you for watching our video today.