Total responsibility of the surgeon in the management of traumatic spinal paraplegics and tetraplegics
- 1 February 1978
- journal article
- case report
- Published by Springer Nature in Spinal Cord
- Vol. 15 (4) , 285-292
- https://doi.org/10.1038/sc.1977.43
Abstract
Surgeons of whatever speciality concerned with the acute treatment of spinal cord injuries have to accept total and not fragmented responsibility in the management of these patients. This involves certain key responsibilities which are discussed in detail in the light of professional liabilities.Keywords
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