TY - JOUR T1 - The spinal cord-injured patient in the medical ward JF - Clinical Medicine JO - Clin Med SP - 549 LP - 552 DO - 10.7861/clinmedicine.13-6-549 VL - 13 IS - 6 AU - Alan N McLean Y1 - 2013/12/01 UR - http://www.rcpjournals.org/content/13/6/549.abstract N2 - People with spinal cord injury (SCI) suffer from the complications of paralysis in addition to the diseases of the general population. Spinal injury centres in the UK are tasked primarily with looking after newly injured patients and patients with established SCI must often turn to their local hospitals and general physicians for inpatient medical care. This paper outlines investigation and management of some of the common conditions which the physician on the general ward might expect to come across in patients with SCI and also how best to maintain the general health of the SCI patient in hospital. ER -