Strategies for Mechanical Ventilation in Patients with Brain Injury

Strategies for Mechanical Ventilation in Patients with Brain Injury

Although direct data to guide mechanical ventilation in brain-injured patients is accumulating, the current evidence base remains limited. Ventilatory considerations in this population should be extrapolated from high-quality... read more

Arterial Carbon Dioxide and Acute Brain Injury in VA-ECMO

Arterial Carbon Dioxide and Acute Brain Injury in VA-ECMO

Acute brain injury (ABI) occurs frequently in patients receiving venoarterial extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (VA-ECMO). We examined the association between peri-cannulation arterial carbon dioxide tension (PaCO2) and... read more

Plasma biomarkers of inflammation, coagulation, and brain injury as predictors of delirium duration in older hospitalized patients

Plasma biomarkers of inflammation, coagulation, and brain injury as predictors of delirium duration in older hospitalized patients

Plasma Biomarkers of systemic inflammation and endothelial activation are associated with ED delirium duration in older ED patients without dementia. A total of 156 patients were enrolled. IL-6 (POR = 1.59, 95%CI: 1.09–2.32)... read more

Casemix, management, and mortality of patients receiving emergency neurosurgery for TBI

Casemix, management, and mortality of patients receiving emergency neurosurgery for TBI

Patients receiving emergency neurosurgery for traumatic brain injury (TBI) differed considerably in their admission characteristics and management across human development settings. Level of human development was associated... read more

Cerebral Hypoperfusion Detection with Dynamic Hyperoxia Test

Cerebral Hypoperfusion Detection with Dynamic Hyperoxia Test

In a heterogeneous population of acute brain-injured patients, cerebral multimodal monitoring with intracranial pressure (ICP) and brain tissue oxygen pressure (PbtO2) detected regional cerebral hypoperfusion with a higher... read more

Rapidly Progressive Brain Atrophy in Septic ICU Patients

Rapidly Progressive Brain Atrophy in Septic ICU Patients

Many ICU patients with severe sepsis who developed prolonged mental status changes and neurological sequelae showed signs of brain atrophy. Patients with rapidly progressive brain atrophy were more likely to have required... read more

ICP Monitoring in Patients with Acute Brain Injury

ICP Monitoring in Patients with Acute Brain Injury

The use of intracranial pressure (ICP) monitoring and ICP management varies greatly across centres and countries. The use of ICP monitoring might be associated with a more intensive therapeutic approach and with lower 6-month... read more

Monitoring tissue oxygenation index using near‐infrared spectroscopy during pre‐hospital resuscitation

Monitoring tissue oxygenation index using near‐infrared spectroscopy during pre‐hospital resuscitation

In this pilot study, we demonstrated the feasibility of ∆TOI as a dynamic value rather than single static value among OHCA patients in a pre-hospital setting. ∆TOI can be considered as a predictor of return of spontaneous... read more

Risk Factors of Ischemic and Hemorrhagic Strokes During Venovenous ECMO

Risk Factors of Ischemic and Hemorrhagic Strokes During Venovenous ECMO

Among venovenous extracorporeal membrane oxygenation patients in the Extracorporeal Life Support Organization registry, approximately 5% had acute brain injury. Mortality rates increased two-fold when ischemic or hemorrhagic... read more

Brain Injury Is More Common in vv-ECMO Than VA-ECMO

Brain Injury Is More Common in vv-ECMO Than VA-ECMO

Brain injury was more common in venoarterial extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (VA-ECMO) compared with venovenous extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (vv-ECMO). While ischemic brain injury was more common in venoarterial... read more

Safe Transfer of the Brain-injured Patient

Safe Transfer of the Brain-injured Patient

The document considers recent developments in the management of multiply-injured patients and those with acute ischaemic stroke. Whilst many of the principles of safe transfer are common to all seriously ill patients,... read more

Is Tranexamic Acid Going to CRASH the Management of TBI?

Is Tranexamic Acid Going to CRASH the Management of TBI?

In the recent CRASH-3 randomized trial, early administration of tranexamic acid (TXA) was associated with a non-significant reduction of head injury-related 28-day mortality in patients with isolated traumatic brain injury... read more

Is Hemoglobin Good for Cerebral Oxygenation and Clinical Outcome in Acute Brain Injury?

Is Hemoglobin Good for Cerebral Oxygenation and Clinical Outcome in Acute Brain Injury?

Hemoglobin is important for cerebral oxygenation and strategies to minimize anemia should be undertaken. higher hemoglobin levels are associated with less cerebral ischemia and better clinical outcome, whether this remains... read more

Detection of Brain Activation in Unresponsive Patients with Acute Brain Injury

Detection of Brain Activation in Unresponsive Patients with Acute Brain Injury

A dissociation between the absence of behavioral responses to motor commands and the evidence of brain activation in response to these commands in EEG recordings was found in 15% of patients in a consecutive series of patients... read more