Spontaneous Intraventricular He ...
Background The prevalent use of anticoagulation in a growing elderly population has led to an increasing incidence of intracerebral hemorrhage. Furt ...
Ventilator Autocycling and Dela ...
Background Improvements in technology play an important role in caring for critically ill patients. One example is the advance in ventilator design ...
Sedation Confounds Outcome Pred ...
Background Therapeutic hypothermia is commonly used in comatose survivors’ post-cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR). It is unknown whether outcome p ...
Acute Intrathecal Baclofen With ...
Background Acute baclofen toxicity and withdrawal can present with a constellation of symptoms making differentiation between these two entities and ...
Multimodal Neuromonitoring in a ...
Background Aortic coarctation (AC) rarely remains undiagnosed until adulthood. Intracranial aneurysms and spontaneous subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) ...
Trend in Outcome and Financial ...
Background Little current data exists regarding outcome, cost, and length of stay (LOS) after subdural hemorrhage (SDH). We sought to examine predic ...
Treatment of Resistant Fever: N ...
Background Fever in neurocritical care patients is common and has a negative impact on neurological outcome. The purpose of this prospective observa ...
A Bolus of Conivaptan Lowers In ...
Background Hyponatremia may complicate brain injury and exacerbate cerebral edema and intracranial pressure (ICP). Vasopressin-receptor antagonists ...
Posterior Reversible Encephalop ...
Background Cerebral vasospasm has become the most concerning complication in patients with aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage (aSAH) seen in the neu ...
Risk Factors and Outcome of Sei ...
Background Seizures are important neurologic complications of chronic subdural hematoma (CSDH). A better understanding of risk factors of seizures f ...
The Effect of Decompressive Hem ...
Background Animal studies have shown that even a small temperature elevation of 1C can cause detrimental effects after brain injury. Since the skul ...
Alterations in Cerebral Oxidati ...
Background Traumatic brain injury (TBI) generates regional alterations in cerebral metabolism, leading to the potential evolution of persistent meta ...
The Challenges with Brain Death ...
Background To identify a reliable method of performing apnea testing as part of brain death determination in adult patients who develop loss of brai ...
Post-Stroke Infection: A Role f ...
Background Infection is common following stroke and is independently associated with worse outcome. Clinical studies suggest that infections occur m ...
Safety and Tolerability of High ...
Background Bivalirudin (Angiomax) is a direct thrombin inhibitor used in interventional cardiology due to its several distinct advantages over hepar ...
Diffuse Cerebral Vasospasm Afte ...
Background Diffuse cerebral vasospasm after brain tumor resection is rare. This is the first report of diffuse cerebral vasospasm following resectio ...
Usefulness of Serum Procalciton ...
Background Patients with extensive brain infarcts are at increased risk for stroke-associated respiratory tract infections (SARTI), which cause wors ...
Comparison of Hypertonic Saline ...
Background Hypertonic saline (HS) is an alternative to mannitol for decreasing intracranial pressure in traumatic brain injury and before craniotomy ...
Intracranial Hemorrhage Followi ...
Background Abciximab is being used as an adjunct to neuroendovascular procedures both to prevent and treat ischemic sequelae. Experience with abcixi ...
Non-Aneurysmal Perimesencephali ...
Background Cavernous angiomas are responsible for intracranial hemorrhages, but bleeding is infrequently confined to the subarachnoid space. Method ...
Acute Ischemic Injury on Diffus ...
Background Poor clinical condition is the most important predictor of neurological outcome and mortality after subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH). Ruptur ...
Inter-Subject Correlation Exist ...
Background The prototypical intracranial pressure (ICP) pulse morphology has been well known to be triphasic. Several studies suggest that the morph ...
Levetiracetam is Associated wit ...
Background To date, common therapy in patients with intracranial hemorrhage (ICH) includes prophylaxis of seizure using antiepileptic drugs, commonl ...
Transdermal Nicotine Replacemen ...
Background We evaluated the safety of nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) in active smokers with acute (aneurysmal) subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH). M ...
CSF Catecholamine Profile in Su ...
Background Patients experiencing apoplectic intracranial processes may develop neurogenic cardiomyopathy (NC). The purpose of this research is to de ...