Cauda Equina Syndrome:

Top tips to save your arse (and your patient’s!)

1. Suspect? Investigate. If CES (threatened, partial or complete) is a “possible diagnosis”, you must investigate urgently

2. Emergency MRI. .Even overnight. Don’t call spinal surgeons first,
unless MRI is contraindicated

3. MRI result: 4 possibilities.

Infographic by Dr. Linda Dykes
@DrLindaDykes

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Dr. Gerald Diaz @GeraldMD · 6 years ago
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