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Electrophrenic respiration in patients with craniocervical trauma
1Department of Neurosurgery, Juntendo University School of Medicine, Shizuoka, Japan.
Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery
|January 1, 1990
Abstract:
We implanted electrophrenic respiration (EPR) units in 15 apneic quadriplegic patients with brain stem or high cervical cord injury. 11 of the patients achieved full-time respiration with EPR and another 2 achieved half-time respiration. Despite the loss of patients due to unrelated problems, 7 now use EPR continuously, 1 for 18 years. The factors involved in the significant success rate with EPR are discussed from the point of view of a neurosurgeon.