Functional recovery from spinal cord trauma following normothermic irrigation in dogs.
The spinal cords of 16 normal dogs were exposed via dorsal laminectomies and damaged with a known impact force. In eight dogs the injured portions of the spinal cords were irrigated, without durotomy, for 2 h with normothermic saline. The remaining eight dogs were used as controls and were not irrigated. The results showed that normothemic irrigation of damaged spinal cords, immediately after impact trauma, had a significant beneficial effect on the functional recovery of the spinal cords.
D000818:Animals; D004283:Dog Diseases / Q000628:therapy*; D004285:Dogs; D013119:Spinal Cord Injuries / Q000628:therapy / Q000662:veterinary*; D013696:Temperature; D007507:Therapeutic Irrigation / Q000379:methods / Q000662:veterinary*