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Head and spinal injury
A practice question in the style of the AMC Part 1 MCQ exam. Choose your answer to see the explanation.
A man with a complete spinal cord injury has absent reflexes below the level of injury on day 1. What is this?
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The answer is D: Spinal shock.
Spinal shock is a temporary loss of reflexes below the injury.
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