Spinal Cord Injury

Clinical Pathways promote evidence-based, safe, and high-value patient care by providing clinical recommendations and standard processes. They are developed by multidisciplinary committees of subject matter experts, informed by a methodical review of available evidence and consensus among committee members.  

Clinical Pathway: 

• Spinal Cord Injury: Emergency Department Algorithm

• Spinal Cord Injury: PICU Algorithm

• Spinal Cord Injury: Rehabilitation Algorithm

• Spinal Cord Injury Clinical Pathway Synopsis – provides care standards employed for this clinical pathway 

Exclusion criteria: 

• Exclusion:  

  • Spinal cord injury secondary to an underlying congenital condition

  • Spinal cord injury secondary to an acquired medical or surgical condition

Committee members involved in the development: 

• John Anderson, MD | Orthopedic Surgery | Committee Co-Chair 

• Anne Stuedemann, MSN, RN, CPNP | Orthopedic Surgery | Committee Co-Chair

• Aaron Shaw, DO, FAAOS | Orthopedic Surgery | Committee Member 

• Michael Benvenuti, MD | Orthopedic Surgery | Committee Member

• Paige Lundy, MD| Neurosurgery | Committee Member

• Kim Hartman, MD, MHPE | Rehabilitation Medicine | Committee Member

• Leslie Hueschen, MD | Emergency Medicine | Committee Member

• Jessica Wallisch, MD | Critical Care Medicine | Committee Member

• Natalee Perrin, BSN, RN, CCRN | Pediatric Intensive Care | Committee Member

• Jay Rilinger, MD | Critical Care Medicine | Committee Member 

EBP Committee Members: 

• Todd Glenski, MD, MSHA, FASA | Anesthesiology, Evidence Based Practice

• Andrea Melanson, OTD, OTR/L | Evidence Based Practice

Publication dates: 

• Finalized date: 09/2025

• Next expected revision date: 2028 

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