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cord-318970-aiqggh6h	Sánchez-Raya, Judith	Spinal cord injury and COVID-19: some thoughts after the first wave	2020-07-21		.txt	text/plain	1892	82	47	Some years ago, the World Health Organization established as a priority the need to help health providers and governments to ensure that people with disability such as spinal cord injury (SCI) could always access the healthcare services in emergency situations [1] . However, the remaining two have survived to date: a 57-year-old male patient with no pathological history with a C2 AIS D cervical injury, severe oropharyngeal dysphagia who required enteral nutrition with a nasogastric tube and a 41-year-old male patient with acute traumatic SCI without comorbidities and a T5 AIS B neurological level who developed acute respiratory failure secondary to pneumonia and presented a favorable evolution with the appropriate treatment that included support measures with administration of high concentrations of oxygen and assisted coughing techniques. In conclusion, the COVID-19 pandemic has been a major challenge for people with SCI and for the specialized units that care for them.	./cache/cord-318970-aiqggh6h.txt	./txt/cord-318970-aiqggh6h.txt