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Filter by:Background: While the intensive care of patients with life-threatening brain illnesses has advanced tremendously, a large number of therapies are still without proper scientific support. This can be partly explained by the fact that mechanisms of initial brain injury are still not well understood. Why additional neurological injury occurs during a patient's stay in the NeuroCritical Care Unit (NCCU) despite current best, evidence-based clinical practices, is also not well understood. However, over the past decade, better tools have become available to measure and monitor the impact of our clinical care on the rapidly changing physiology and chemistry of the injured brain. Some of these tools are CT, MRI, ultrasound, and catheter-based technology measuring blood flow and metabolism. These tools have enabled earlier detection of injury and complications and newer therapeutic strategies. Purpose: Examine disease pathways common to all brain injuries seen in the University of Maryland's 22-bed NCCU. Life-threatening neurological illnesses cared for in the NCCU include massive stroke, bleeding in and around the brain (subarachnoid hemorrhage, intracerebral hemorrhage, subdural hemorrhage, intraventricular hemorrhage), brain tumors, difficult to control seizures, neurologic infections, nerve and muscle diseases (such as myasthenia gravis or Guillain-Barre Syndrome), and spinal cord disorders among others. Many NCCU patients are comatose or paralyzed and may suffer injuries in other parts of the body as well. This effort will require the creation of a robust clinical database for the capture of data including patient characteristics (age, sex), clinical characteristics, medical treatments, surgical interventions, physiological data (such as vital signs, cerebral blood flow, intracranial pressure, cerebral oximetry, etc), laboratory data, and standard-of-care diagnostic studies such as electroencephalography (EEG), ultrasound, CT, MRI, and angiograms. Similar databases exist at other major centers for neurocritical care and have been instrumental to the identification of characteristics both predictive of and associated with outcomes of patients long after their stay in the NCCU. In addition, the samples collected will be included in the University of Maryland Medicine (UMM) Biorepository which is a shared resource to enable biomedical research by University of Maryland faculty.
The purpose of this prospective, single center, single arm registry is to assess technical feasibility, peri-procedural complications, post-procedure imaging outcomes, and 30-day safety outcomes in subjects with intraventricular hemorrhages utilizing the Artemis Neuro Evacuation Device in the hyper-acute phase.
The ideal management of blood pressure in BP after acute intracerebral haemorrhage is still debated and whether a higher intensive reduction of blood pressure after acute intracerebral haemorrhage may be better or not is still controversial. Conflicting results from different randomized trials in regards to the clinical guidelines for management of hypertension in people with acute intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH). These results indicate that the management of BP and the prognosis after acute spontaneous ICH are very complicated. Therefore, analysis based on actual blood pressure (BP) accomplished may be a more efficient method to assess the impact of BP management on outcome of ICH. In our research, blood pressure (BP) management and prognosis were studied in patients with acute intracerebral hemorrhage to decide the perfect time control BP to improve outcome.
Intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH) is one of the most devastating nontraumatic cerebral vascular diseases. Its exacerbation is often related to a mass effect because of hematoma formation and edema in the perihematoma, which plays a key role in disease deterioration. Perihematoma edema is an important contributor to brain injuries secondary to ICH and one of the risk factors that leads to disease deterioration and high mortality. Brain edema following ICH was believed to be induced by the breakdown of the blood-brain barrier and ischemia and hypoxia of the perihematoma. Normobaric oxygen (NBO) therapy is a treatment that delivers high-flow oxygen at normobaric pressure through a facemask to supplement the oxygen supply,which maintain the oxygen concentration of typically 40-100% ,can increase the arterial oxygen content, and alleviate tissue hypoxia. NBO therapy has been shown to provide neuroprotection against ischemic stroke in an experimental study and a clinical trial. To the best of our knowledge, the potential of NBO therapy for neuroprotection against human hemorrhagic stroke has not been investigated. There are two studies about NBO interventions in the rat model of intracerebral hemorrhage.The one showed NBO did not worsen hemorrhage severity or brain edema. There were no significant differences in hemorrhagic blood volumes or brain water content. NBO did not affect any of the neurological outcome tests in the primary or secondary studies. Another one showed NBO groups improved NSSs,decreased contents of brain water, HIF-1α and VEGF, and fewer apoptotic cells in the perihematoma at 72 h after ICH compared with the ICH control group. These results suggest that NBO therapy with oxygen delivered at 90% conferred best neuroprotection to ICH rats, potentially through amelioration of brain edema by suppressing HIF-1α and VEGF expression in the perihematoma. But there is no clinical study on the safety and efficacy of NBO in patients with intracerebral hemorrhage.NBO has the advantages of simple operation, non-invasiveness and early application, which makes it have great application prospects in the treatment of ICH.
Severe strokes, including large artery acute ischemic stroke and intracerebral hemorrhage, continue to be the leading cause of death and disability in adults in the U.S. Due to concerns for a poor long-term quality of life, withdrawal of mechanical ventilation and supportive medical care with transition to comfort care is the most common cause of death in severe strokes, but occurs at a highly variable rate. Decision aids (DAs) are shared decision-making tools which have been successfully implemented and validated for many other diseases to assist difficult decision making. The investigators have developed a pilot DA for goals-of-care decisions for surrogates of severe, critically ill stroke patients. This was developed through qualitative research using semi-structured interviews in surrogate decision makers of traumatic brain injury patients and physicians, and adapted to severe strokes. The investigators now propose to pilot-test a DA for surrogates of critically ill severe stroke patients in a feasibility trial.
This study aims to investigates the role of gestational age on the prevalence of coagulation factors and components of the complement system in preterm- (≤32+0 weeks) and term neonates (≥37+0 weeks) and their role for the development of brain hemorrhage.
A recent prospective observational clinical study conducted in an intensive care unit of a third level US university hospital showed that 94% of patients with ES and 50% of those with EC had an ARC for a duration of at least one day during the hospital stay. Although there is currently a great deal of evidence describing ARC in various subgroups of critically ill patients, on the other hand there is little documentation regarding the effect that ARC can have on exposure to renally eliminated drugs. Therefore, the aim of this study is to prospectively evaluate the proportion of plasma under-exposure to hydrophilic antimicrobials in patients with ES or EC and with ARC, in order to verify whether the recommended dosage regimens for these drugs are adequate for reaching the pharmacodynamic targets of therapeutic efficacy.
The purpose of this study is to test the safety and effectiveness of a single dose of fingolimod in patients with primary spontaneous intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH).
The aim of the observational multicenter trial encompasses the comparison of estimation of the long-term prognosis (functional and cognitive outcomes, quality of life) after intracerebral and subarachnoid hemorrhages assessed by clinical scores, treating physicians and nurses. The scores and the assessment of the treating physicians and nurses are recorded on admission, at 7 and 14 days after symptom onset.
A randomized, controlled study is conducted. 120 patients with post-stroke shoulder-shoulder syndrome who meet the inclusion criteria are randomized into treatment group and control group, 60 patients in each group. The treatment group is treated with Qingpeng ointment. The goal of this trial is to verify the clinical efficacy of Tibetan medicine Qingpeng ointment in improving post-stroke shoulder-hand syndrome, and to investigate its effect on pain level, swelling degree, hand movement function, activity and activities of daily living.