The short-term spinal cord stimulation improves the rates of tracheal decannulation in patients of brain injury with disorders of consciousness.
BMC neuroscience May 26, 2025 Guanlin Huang, Dong Wang, Qiang Chen et al. 1 citation
Short-term spinal cord stimulation (stSCS) significantly improves the likelihood of tracheal decannulation in brain injury patients with disorders of consciousness. In a retrospective study of 81 tracheotomized patients, those receiving stSCS had a decannulation rate of 50.0%, compared to 25.7% in the standard care group. The difference was statistically meaningful, indicating stSCS may be a useful neuromodulation strategy to help these patients breathe without a tracheostomy tube.