Spinal cord injury symptom name

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What is the symptom related with a spinal cord injury/trauma that causes one sided discoloration in the body?

Not neurogenic shock where there is discoloration starts at the injury side, but is split sagittal.

Also, in neurogenic shock, is there pink skin above or below the injury site? Pale skin?
 
ParamedicStudent said:
Also, in neurogenic shock, is there pink skin above or below the injury site? Pale skin?
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What is the mechanism causing them to go into shock, why might the skin be colored differently?
 
Pretty sure that the three main spinal cord injuries (aside from full transection) with all of their respective presentations are found in (maybe) 2 pages of your text.


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ParamedicStudent said:
injury at affected site causes systemic vasodialiation under injury .
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Bro... You could try to disguise it a little bit. Maybe something like this:
"We ran a call where pt was in motorcycle accident with no movement below waist and a clear line of flushed skin at belly button to toes... My partner said it was (insert spinal injury) but I said it was (insert other spinal injury). What say you guys?"


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Found it! It's called Brown-Sequard syndrome. And I was wrong about the discoloration (or partially, as discoloration may or may not show up), but symptoms are one sided paralysis or weakness due to trauma the affected side of the spinal cord.

gotshirtz001 said:
Bro... You could try to disguise it a little bit. Maybe something like this:
"We ran a call where pt was in motorcycle accident with no movement below waist and a clear line of flushed skin at belly button to toes... My partner said it was (insert spinal injury) but I said it was (insert other spinal injury). What say you guys?"


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Hey thanks! I'll do that next time
 
ParamedicStudent said:
Found it! It's called Brown-Sequard syndrome. And I was wrong about the discoloration (or partially, as discoloration may or may not show up), but symptoms are one sided paralysis or weakness due to trauma the affected side of the spinal cord.



Hey thanks! I'll do that next time
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This baby does show up on the registry every now and then. So I just want to point out that the textbook presentation of Brown-sequard is a spastic paralysis on the same side and below the level of the injury WITH a loss of temperature and pain sensation on the OPPOSITE side of the body, below the level of the injury.

Without the sympotms on the opposite side, it's not Brown-Sequard.
 
Nova1300 said:
This baby does show up on the registry every now and then. So I just want to point out that the textbook presentation of Brown-sequard is a spastic paralysis on the same side and below the level of the injury WITH a loss of temperature and pain sensation on the OPPOSITE side of the body, below the level of the injury.

Without the sympotms on the opposite side, it's not Brown-Sequard.
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thanks for that bit of knowledge, I'll keep that in mind!
 
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