Autonomic Dysreflexia (AD) is a potentially life-threatening condition that occurs in individuals with a spinal cord injury. Patients usually present with elevated blood pressure and bradycardia.

Angela C. Joseph, MSN, CNS, CURN, is the Spinal Cord Injury Urology Clinical Nurse Coordinator, San Diego Veterans Administration Health Care System, San Diego CA. Michael Albo, MD, is Section ...

Covers management of autonomic dysreflexia, transfers from wheelchair to exam table, positioning on the exam table, breast examination, mammograms and pap smears. Part II - Pregnancy & Delivery: This ...

"We discovered that exaggerated, life-threatening autonomic reflexes after spinal cord injury are associated with abnormal ...

Their use has been abandoned except in autonomic dysreflexia in spinal cord injury. Verapamil-sensitive ventricular tachycardia is a known entity.

Neurologic diagnoses included 530 spinal cord injured (249 cervical ... lower abdominal discomfort resolved a few days later. Autonomic dysreflexia occurred in 42 patients for an incidence ...