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Predicting blunt cerebrovascular injury in pediatric trauma: Validation of the Utah Score [PDF]

, 2017
Risk factors for blunt cerebrovascular injury (BCVI) may differ between children and adults, suggesting that children at low risk for BCVI after trauma receive unnecessary computed tomography angiography (CTA) and high-dose radiation.
Akbari, Hassan, Birkas, Yekaterina, Bollo, Robert J, Gannon, Stephen, Jea, Andrew, Kestle, John R, Limbrick, David D, Jr, Naftel, Robert P, Prather, Colin T, Ravindra, Vijay M, Riva-Cambrin, Jay, Shannon, Chevis, Sivakumar, Walavan, Yang, George L   +13 more
core   +2 more sources

Evidence of internal structure validity of the nursing outcome “Mechanical Ventilation Weaning Response: Adult (0412)” for critically ill COVID‐19 patients

International Journal of Nursing Knowledge, EarlyView.
Abstract Purpose To evaluate the evidence of internal structure validity of the nursing outcome (NO) “Mechanical Ventilation Weaning Response: Adult (0412)” of the NOs classification for critically ill COVID‐19 patients. Methods A methodological study focused on internal structural validation, part of a multicenter study, was carried out in the ...
Aline Batista Maurício, Viviane Martins da Silva, Agueda Maria Ruiz Zimmer Cavalcante, Larissa Giardini Bruni, Sue Ann Moorhead, Elizabeth Swanson, Karen Dunn Lopez, Marcos Venícios de Oliveira Lopes, Alba Lucia Bottura Leite de Barros   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Assessing Nurses Knowledge of Glasgow Coma Scale in Emergency and Outpatient Department

Nursing Research and Practice, 2016
Assessment of level of consciousness using the Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) is a tool requiring knowledge that is important in detecting early deterioration in a patient's level of consciousness.
Harvinderjit Kaur AP Basauhra Singh, M. Chong, H. Thambinayagam, M. I. Zakaria, Siew Ting Cheng, L. Tang, Nurul Hafizan Azahar   +6 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Severe Hyponatremia in the Emergency Department Incidence of Cerebral Edema and Risk of Osmotic Demyelination Syndrome

Academic Emergency Medicine, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Study Objective Treatment strategies in severe hyponatremia aim at rapid sodium correction to prevent or treat cerebral edema but limit sodium rise to prevent osmotic demyelination syndrome (ODS). The true risk of edema or ODS in ED patients is unknown.
Volker Burst, Ramon Rabii, Julian Peto‐Madew, Thorsten Persigehl, Stefan Haneder, Matthias Johannes Hackl, Christoph Hüser, Moritz Trappe, Sadrija Cukoski, Kathrin Möllenhoff, Victor Suárez   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Virtual International Stroke Trials Archive [PDF]

, 2007
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: Stroke has global importance and it causes an increasing amount of human suffering and economic burden, but its management is far from optimal. The unsuccessful outcome of several research programs highlights the need for reliable
Ali, M., Bath, P.M.W., Curram, J., Davis, S.M., Diener, H.-C., Donnan, G.A., Fisher, M., Gregson, B.A., Grotta, J., Hacke, W., Hennerici, M.G., Hommel, M., Kaste, M., Lees, K.R., Marler, J.R., Sacco, R.L., Teal, P., Wahlgren, N.-G., Warach, S., Weir, C.J.   +19 more
core   +3 more sources

A Prospective Multi‐Center Implementation Study to Improve the Diagnosis and Treatment of Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo

Academic Emergency Medicine, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Benign paroxysmal positional vertigo (BPPV) is the most common cause of vertigo, yet it remains underdiagnosed and undertreated in emergency departments (EDs). Despite evidence‐based guidelines recommending bedside diagnostic maneuvers (Dix‐Hallpike and supine roll test) and canalith repositioning maneuvers (CRMs), these are ...
Robert Ohle, Danielle Roy, Elger Baraku, Kashyap Patel, David W. Savage, Sarah McIsaac, Ravinder Singh, Daniel Lelli, Darren Tse, Peter Johns, Krishan Yadav, Jeffrey J. Perry   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source

Influence of cerebral and extracerebral factors on the prognosis of surgical treatment of hemorrhagic stroke

Ukrainian Neurosurgical Journal, 2012
Introduction. Hemorrhagic stroke frequency ranges from 10 to 39% in a structure of acute brain vascular diseases. Their treatment is usually conservative. Today surgical treatment is used also.Materials and methods.
Leonard Chepkiy, Orest Tsimeyko, Olga Kamenska, Volodymyr Moroz   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Prediction of Critical Illness During Out-of-Hospital Emergency Care

, 2010
CONTEXT: Early identification of nontrauma patients in need of critical care services in the emergency setting may improve triage decisions and facilitate regionalization of critical care.
Cooke, Colin, Heckbert, Susan, Kahn, Jeremy M., Rea, Thomas, Seymour, Christopher W., Watkins, Timothy   +5 more
core   +1 more source

Reflex cough PEF as a predictor of successful extubation in neurological patients

Jornal Brasileiro de Pneumologia, 2015
Objective: To evaluate the use of reflex cough PEF as a predictor of successful extubation in neurological patients who were candidates for weaning from mechanical ventilation.Methods: This was a cross-sectional study of 135 patients receiving mechanical
Fernanda Machado Kutchak, Andressa Maciel Debesaitys, Marcelo de Mello Rieder, Carla Meneguzzi, Amanda Soares Skueresky, Luiz Alberto Forgiarini Junior, Marino Muxfeldt Bianchin   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Risk Adjustment In Neurocritical care (RAIN)--prospective validation of risk prediction models for adult patients with acute traumatic brain injury to use to evaluate the optimum location and comparative costs of neurocritical care: a cohort study. [PDF]

, 2013
OBJECTIVES: To validate risk prediction models for acute traumatic brain injury (TBI) and to use the best model to evaluate the optimum location and comparative costs of neurocritical care in the NHS. DESIGN: Cohort study.
Gomes, M, Grieve, R, Griggs, KA, Harrison, DA, Harvey, SE, Hutchinson, PJA, Lecky, FE, Menon, DK, Prabhu, G, Rowan, KM, Sadique, MZ, Smith, M, Walmsley, E, Yeoman, P   +13 more
core   +2 more sources