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Filter by:Aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage (aSAH) is bleeding into the space between the brain and the tissues that surround the brain as a result of a ruptured aneurysm and is a type of stroke associated with high morbidity and mortality. Those that survive the initial bleed are critically ill and require prolonged intensive care unit stays since they are at risk for a multitude of secondary insults that can further worsen functional outcomes. An especially feared secondary insult is delayed cerebral ischemia (DCI), which is a lack of blood flow to a particular portion of the brain that can result in an ischemic stroke and produce profound neurologic deficits. How DCI develops in some people after aSAH and not others is unknown, but many have hypothesized various mechanisms such as 1) cerebral vasospasm, a focal anatomic narrowing of the blood vessels in the brain that could decrease downstream blood flow, 2) abnormal electrical activity, and 3) microthrombi, or the formation of small blood clots. It is vitally important to identify a therapy that could protect the brain from these secondary insults that happen days after the initial brain bleed. Ketamine is a drug used in the majority of hospitals around the world for various indications, including general anesthesia, sedation, and for pain. Ketamine blocks a specific receptor that is present within the brain and in doing so could play a critical protective role against these secondary insults after aSAH by blocking the flow of dangerous chemicals. Ketamine may provide the following beneficial properties after aSAH: 1) pain control, 2) seizure prevention, 3) blood pressure support, 4) dilation of the brain blood vessels, 5) sedation, 6) anti-depressant, and 7) anti-inflammatory. This project is designed to test whether ketamine sedation in the intensive care unit after aneurysm repair provides better outcomes than the currently used sedation regimen.
Subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) is the extravasation of blood into the subarachnoid space from traumatic or nontraumatic origin. There is a paucity of data on the burden of SAH in African countries. In this study, we analyzed data from patients in the largest neurovascular center in Senegal to determine the sex- and age-adjusted burden of SAH in Senegal.
Objectives: To investigate the impact of NIRS directed optimal cerebral perfusion pressure on the outcome of aSAH patients. Study design: A multicenter, single-blinded, randomized controlled trial. Setting: Departments of critical care medicine of tertiary hospitals in China. Patients: 150 aSAH patients (≥ 18 years old) who admitted to ICU (predicted ICU duration time ≥ 24 hours) Intervention: Patients with aSAH will be randomly divided into the control group and the intervention group. The control group will follow the SAH guidelines. The intervention group will be given continuous NIRS and invasive blood pressure monitoring at same time. The correlation curve between the brain oxygenation index or the brain hemoglobin index (ORI/THx) and the blood pressure will be obtained through continuous monitoring. According to the correlation curve, the optimal blood pressure will be determined which provides the optimal CPP. Then the goal of blood pressure (within 5 mmHg of CPPopt) will be maintained as the target of blood pressure management for the intervention group during ICU stay. Primary outcome: Neurological prognosis (GCS score，GOS score, and NIHSS score when discharge from ICU; GOS score at 6 months), etc. Predicted duration of the study: 2 years.
The length of prophylactic antibiotic use with antibiotic impregnated External Ventricular Drains (EVD)s is unknown. This study is a randomized clinical trial with two arms: 1. twenty four hours of prophylactic antibiotic use or 2. prophylactic antibiotic use for entire duration of EVD
The primary objective of this study is to evaluate the association between hemoglobin levels in the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF-Hb) and the occurrence of secondary brain injury in patients after aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH-SBI) during the first 14 days after bleeding.
This is a pragmatic, multi-center, prospective, observational, non-interventional study and standing database of patients hospitalized for transient ischemic attack (TIA) or stroke in the 11 accredited adult neurology training institutions in the Philippines. Data will be collected from each patient while admitted in the hospital and until hospital discharge. Data collection for this study will span 3 years from study initiation, after which the utility of an extension or a re-implementation of the study will be assessed.
Acute brain injury due to traumatic brain injury (TBI), intracerebral haemorrhage (ICH), and aneurysmal subarachnoid haemorrhage (SAH) carries a high morbidity and mortality, in part due to the development of secondary brain injury. The mechanisms behind secondary brain injury are incompletely understood, but oxidative/nitrosative stress and disturbances in the metabolism of the vasodilator nitric oxide (NO) are believed to be involved. The aim of the present study is to characterise systemic changes in markers of oxidative/nitrosative stress and NO metabolism in the early phase after acute brain injury, and to examine their relationship to clinical course, neurological outcome, and mortality.
Multicentric registry study in order to define outcome, predictors, treatment effects and their modifiers in poor grade aneurysmal subarachnoid haemorrhage patients. The search for outcome predictors is going to be subdivided into three main research areas: 1. outcome predictors in the emergency department (so called "early brain injury phase"). 2. outcome predictors in the neurocritical care unit (so called "delayed brain injury phase"). 3. Treatment strategies. Two other areas of research are identified: delayed cerebral ischemia (incidence, treatment, predictors, impact on outcome) and long term follow-up (recent evidences suggest that there may be a non-negligible proportion of poor grade subarachnoid hemorrhage patients who may benefit from substantial improvement at long-term (after 6-12 months of follow-up).
The incidence of Rosenthal basilar vein (BVR) variants (deep venous drainage variants) was relatively increased in patients with AN-SAH compared with patients with aneurysms. However, the inclusion criteria for AN-SAH patients in these studies were different. Some studies have investigated both PAN-SAH and NPAN-SAH, while some studies have only investigated PAN-SAH patients. However, we believe that NPAN-SAH may be the bleeding caused by non-BVR variation. Although previous studies did not find any association between NPAN-SAH and BVR variants, the results in their study were different, which may be due to the limited number of cases.
Although spontaneous hyperventilation patients with aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage closely associated with poor outcomes, the standard therapy remains unavailable. Remifentanil has the pharmacological characterization of respiratory inhibition, mainly prolonging the expiratory time and decreasing the respiratory rate while preserving the respiratory drive. The investigators hypothesis that spontaneous hyperventilation could be corrected by titrating the dose of remifentanil and cerebral blood flow will augment during this process.