Ten False Beliefs in Neurocritical Care

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1. Only neurointensivists should care about the brain.
2. Clinical examination of neurocritically ill patients is impossible.
3. We should no longer monitor ICP in traumatic brain injury (TBI).
4. The threshold to treat ICP is 20 or 22mmHg.
5. Ketamine increases the ICP.
6. Subarachnoid haemorrhage (SAH) patients should get ‘triple H’ therapy.
7. There is no need to control the temperature after cardiac arrest (CA).
8. Hypoglycaemia is harmful for the brain, hyperglycaemia is not.
9. In acute ischemic stroke (AIS), revascularization should be done within 3h of symptom onset.
10. Blood pressure control in intracerebral haemorrhage (ICH): contradictory trials.

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