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Bol. Asoc. Méd. P. R
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90(4/6): 95-101, Apr.-Jun. 1998.
Article
in English
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ABSTRACT
We report a male patient who after a fall suffered high cervical spinal cord and head (cerebral) injuries. These injuries led to spinal shock, marked sinus bradycardia and asystolic cardiac and respiratory arrests, recalcitrant central traumatic diabetes insipidus, and death within approximately seven weeks. Temporary transvenous cardiac pacing proved useful in the management of this patient