Exploring cases of neurological loss from SEA in patients who were discharged from urgent care and ER departments without diagnostic testing and delays Patients with epidural spinal abscess present to ...

Spinal epidural abscess (SEA) is a serious infection of the central nervous system that typically presents with midline back pain, fever and neurological deficits. We report a rare case of an ...

Antibiotic therapy should be initiated as soon as the diagnosis of SEA is confirmed. Treating patients with antibiotics alone is a major advance in managing SEA. Rigamonti et al. (1999) recommended ...

Spinal decompression is a type of treatment for back pain. Decompression can be done both surgically and non-surgically. With both treatments, the goal is to stretch your spine and change its position ...

A 47 year-old man developed mid-back pain followed by numbness and weakness of both legs over the next two weeks, associated with urinary incontinence. He had been treated for Staphylococcus aureus ...

S. A. is a 47-year-old woman who presented at the emergency department (ED) with a 2-day history of increasing back pain and bilateral lower extremity (BLE) numbness and weakness. She arrived by ...