Friday 22 February 2019

Current tools have low accuracy for predicting delayed ischemia after aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage

Both CT angiography and transcranial Doppler have limited accuracy in detecting cerebral vasospasm and predicting delayed cerebral ischemia (DCI) in patients with subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) due to ruptured aneurysm, reports a study in the inaugural edition of Critical Care Explorations, the official open-access journal of the Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM).

* This article was originally published here