links to SCI sites
Respiratory System after SCI
Craig Hospital
Online information is available on a number of topics related to SCI.
Art of Breathing
The main website is http://www.craighospital.org
Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation
There is a wealth of information about a number of topics related to SCI. Check out the Fact Sheets from A to Z. These are downloadable in PDF Format
here.
Check out the Vent-Trach Respiratory fact sheet.
The main website is http://www.christopherreeve.org
National Spinal Cord Injury Association
The NSCIA has an A-Z Index of Resource Topics. Each topic has links to a variety of sites with information.
See the section on Respiratory Management at http://spinalcord.org/resources/
See the section on Ventilators at http://spinalcord.org/resources/
The main website is http://www.spinalcord.org
Northwest Regional Spinal Cord Injury System
Online Information at this site maintained by the Rehabilitation Medicine department of the University of Washington. The is an excellent SCI Forum.
SCI Forum Report Topic: Common Respiratory Problems in SCI -
What You Need to Know
The main website is http://sci.washington.edu
Paralyzed Veterans of America
PVA.org has excellent manuals that are downloadable in PDF format.
There is a manual for clinicians: Respiratory Management Following Spinal Cord Injury
There is a manual for consumers: Respiratory Management Following Spinal Cord Injury: What You Should Know
The main site is
http://www.pva.org/
Spinal Cord Injury Information Network at UAB
This site is maintained by the UAB Model Spinal Cord Injury Center and offers educational and research information relevant to persons with SCI, their families, and others of interest.
A video on Respiratory Management (18 minutes) may be dowloaded or streamed from
here.
An Understanding and Managing Respiratory Complications after SCI InfoSheet may be seen
here.
The main site is
http://www.spinalcord.uab.edu/
Spinal Cord Injury Manual for Patients and Families
Informative manual from the PoinTIS Web site provided by the Louis Calder Memorial Library of the University of Miami School of Medicine.
Go to the manual site at
http://calder.med.miami.edu/pointis/sciman.html. In the menu on the left, select the topic: Respiratory Management.
The main site is
http://calder.med.miami.edu