Table 2.

Patients who died after traumatic injury to the spinal cord

Case number	Age	Injury level	Inj.-death interval	PM fixation time
1	21 years	T12	2 days	23 hours
2	51 years	C1	4 days	32 hours
3	84 years	C3–4	5 days	15 hours
4	65 years	C5	8 days	28 hours
5	63 years	C6	10 days	41 hours
6	18 years	T6	11 days	19 hours
7	72 years	T11–12	24 days	25 hours
8	85 years	C3	4 months	22 hours
9	76 years	T8–9	10 months	18 hours
10	80 years	C5–6	1 year	16 hours
11	72 years	T12	2 years	21 hours
12	44 years	L1	8 years	17 hours
13	71 years	C3–4	20 years	18 hours
14	47 years	T5	26 years	20 hours
15	57 years	T3–4	30 years	17 hours