A 21-month-old boy with steroid-dependent asthma presented to the emergency room with Glascow Coma Score (GCS) 3 and retinal hemorrhages. He was found to have subdural and subarachnoid hemorrhage on computed tomography plus findings of hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy (HIE). The caretaker history was thought to be inconsistent with the clinical and imaging features, and the patient was diagnosed...

BACKGROUND Non-convulsive seizures have been reported to be common in neurocritical care patients. Many jurisdictions do not have sufficient resources to enable routine continuous electroencephalography (cEEG) and instead use primarily intermittent EEG, for which the diagnostic yield remains uncertain. Determining risk factors for epileptiform activity and seizures could help identify patients ...

to determine the factors affecting the outcome of patients with traumatic acute subdural hematoma, we reviewed the records of7 4 consecutive comatose patients with a glascow coma scale score (gcs) of less than 8 who had been admitted to imam hosein medical center from 1990 to 1996 and had undergone a uniform treatment protocol. the overall mortality rate was 73% and 23% had functional recovery,...

background variables derived from electroencephalogram like cerebral state index (csi) have been used to monitor the anesthesia depth during general anesthesia. observed evidences show such variables have also been used as a detector of brain death or outcome predictor in traumatic brain-injured (tbi) patients. objectives the current study was designed to determine the correlation between glasg...

background hemorrhagic progression of a contusion (hpc) is one of the main problems in neurosurgery, which is associated with several adverse effects and increasing the risk of mortality. the present study investigated the effect of transfusion of fresh frozen plasma (ffp) in the prevention of hpc. material and methods in this randomized clinical trial, 100 patients with cerebral contusion were...

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conclusions with regards to the predictive strength of the combination of gcs and iss, a predictive system for analyzing the clinical outcome may be provided. results 15496 traumatic patients referred to the hospital and traumatic deaths occurred in 289 patients. blunt trauma accounted for 286 (99%) of death and penetrating trauma for only 1%. our findings concerning the injury pattern, correla...

The purpose of this study was to explore the relationship between neurologic function, using a quantitative measurement of continuous somatosensory evoked potentials (SSEPs), and intracranial pressure (ICP) following traumatic brain injury. During a 6 year period, severely head-injured patients with a Glascow Coma Scale < or = 8 who were not moribund were monitored with SSEPs and ICP measuremen...

Background: Infantile cerebral hydatidosis is a serious infection and represents major problem of public health that threatens the economy countries in which it endemic. It imposes large-scale prophylaxis based on interruption parasite cycle. Case description: We present case 2-year-old girl with no medical history living rural region (Sidi Ifni), where contact dogs, sheep, cattle not uncommon....

conclusions the mgap scoring system can be used as an appropriate scoring system to predict mortality in triage trauma patients. results patients were divided into three groups : scores of less than 18, 18 - 22 and greater than 22; in which the mortality rates were 75.2%, 9.5% and 0.1%, respectively (p < 0.0001). the best cut-off point was 22 in our study, and the mgap scoring system had 93.7% ...