Pretest of the clinical application of a management model for comprehensive treatments of acute spinal cord injury.

Objective: To explore the effects of a new management model of comprehensive treatments of acute spinal cord injury (SCI) on clinical application. Methods: From January 2010 to January 2011, there were 89 patients with acute SCI over the same admission period, including 32 cases divided into the management model group and the other 57 into the control group. Respectively, at the 1, 3 and 6 months after treatment, the score standardization, developed by the American Association of spinal cord injury (ASIA), was used to assess the motor and sensory function during the admission period. At the same time, a follow-up survey was made to investigate the satisfaction of patients and their families. Results: At 1 and 3 months after treatment, the motor and feeling function scores of patients in the experimental group both improved significantly compared with the control group, and the differences were statistically significant (P<0.05). In addition, six months after treatment, the motor and sensory function scores of patients in the control group were not significantly improved any longer; while those scores in the experimental group still significantly recovered, and the difference between experimental and control groups was also statistically significant (P<0.05). According to the follow-up, patients and their families in the experimental group were of greater satisfaction than the control group (P<0.05). Conclusions: The management model of acute SCI treatment performed perfect clinical effects, and was worth promoting.