Study finds early withdrawal of care may limit recovery in severe brain injury

A new study led by University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine clinical scientists and UPMC neurosurgeons challenges ...
BMJ

Factors associated with prehospital and in-hospital delays in acute ischaemic stroke care in Indonesia: a systematic review

Design Systematic review adhering to Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses guidelines. Data sources We conducted a thorough search across 11 databases, ClinicalTrials.gov ...
SciELO

Validation to Brazilian Portuguese of the coma recovery scale-revised

Background To improve the diagnostic accuracy of the state of consciousness of patients with severe brain injury, Giacino et al. introduced the Coma Recovery Scale (CRS) in 1991, which underwent ...

GCs' Plans to Rein in Spending May Imperil Big Law's Profit Party

"The surge in demand that’s lifting profits to record heights stems not from economic health but from chaos,” according to ...
The Lancet

Beyond mild, moderate, and severe traumatic brain injury: modelling severity from clinical, neuroimaging, and blood-based indicators

The members of collaborative group are listed in the Supplementary Material. We used item response theory (IRT) to develop a new method for quantifying TBI severity using 24 clinical, head computed ...
Healio

Surgery nonsuperior to medical management alone for intracerebral hemorrhage

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The overall treatment benefit of surgery vs. management at 30 days was significantly diminished at 90 and 180 ...
Frontiers

Predicting 28-day mortality for patients with acute anterior circulation large vessel occlusion stroke following endovascular treatment in neurology intensive care units

1 Department of Neurology, Xiangyang Central Hospital, Affiliated Hospital of Hubei University of Arts and Science, Xiangyang, China 2 Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Xiangyang Central Hospital ...
BMJ

Transcutaneous auricular vagal nerve stimulation for consciousness recovery in patients with prolonged disorders of consciousness (TAVREC): study protocol for a multicenter ...

1 Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, People's Republic of China 2 Department of Critical Care Medicine, Nanjing Zijin Hospital ...
Medscape

A Review of the Predictive Ability of Glasgow Coma Scale Scores in Head-Injured Patients

In the years immediately following the introduction of the GCS, many researchers examined the GCS score on admission along with other variables present in the acute stages of head injury and ...
jnis.bmj

Incidence, predictors, and outcomes of malignant cerebral edema after acute basilar artery occlusion thrombectomy

Background Malignant cerebral edema (MCE) following basilar artery occlusion (BAO) thrombectomy is a critical, yet understudied, complication. Objective To investigate the incidence, predictors, and ...
ahajournals.org

Abstract TP420: Fluctuations in Glasgow Coma Scale Score Correlate with Non-invasive Continous Cerebral Autoregulation Monitoring in Comatose Patients

Introduction: The Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) score is the most commonly used scale for assessment of patients with acute neurological injury in critical care settings. The post-resuscitation admission ...
MedPage Today

Hidden Consciousness in Comatose Patients Identified by Sleep Spindles

Sleep spindles helped predict recovery in unresponsive patients with acute brain injury. About a third of unresponsive patients showed well-formed sleep spindle patterns. Spindles frequently preceded ...