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Autonomic dysreflexia with an authored trigger

Educational use only. Not clinically reviewed

36-year-old man for calm pattern recognition, trigger transition, reassessment, and handoff practice. About 6 simulated minutes.

What you will practise

  • Reconcile the lesion, usual pressure, acute symptoms, rhythm, and whole patient.
  • Recognize the autonomic-dysreflexia pattern without closing alternatives or definitive diagnosis.
  • Activate upright support, frequent surveillance, and qualified spinal-injury ownership.
  • Review and release the supplied visible external urinary trigger within role.
  • At a strict later report, reassess pressure, pulse, symptoms, and the trigger transition.
  • After another elapsed interval, hand off baseline, triggers, recurrence, complications, prevention, and active risk.

Review and sources

Not clinically reviewed. No clinician has signed this scenario.

  • Consortium for Spinal Cord Medicine. Evaluation and Management of Autonomic Dysreflexia and Other Autonomic Dysfunctions: Preventing the Highs and Lows. J Spinal Cord Med. 2021;44(4):631-683. doi:10.1080/10790268.2021.1925058.

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Open Sim Lab is an educational simulator, not for clinical use. It is not a clinical decision-support tool, not a dosing calculator, and is not validated for any decision affecting a real patient.