ALLMedicine™ Neurologic Emergencies Center

Aug 1st, 2020 - An estimated 0.1%-0.8% of obstetric patients require admission to an intensive care unit (ICU) during pregnancy or the puerperium. When neurologic emergencies occur in pregnancy, collaboration between the neurointensivist, obstetric anesthesiologi...

Jun 2nd, 2020 - Two major pathogenic events that cause acute brain damage during neurologic emergencies of stroke, head trauma, and cardiac arrest are spreading depolarizing waves and the associated brain edema that course across the cortex injuring brain cells. ...

Apr 27th, 2020 - A careful history and thorough physical examination are necessary in patients presenting with acute neurologic dysfunction. Patients presenting with headache should be screened for red-flag criteria that suggest a dangerous secondary cause warrant...

Oct 22nd, 2019 - Computed tomography (CT) of the head is used worldwide to diagnose neurologic emergencies. However, expertise is required to interpret these scans, and even highly trained experts may miss subtle life-threatening findings. For head CT, a unique ch...

Feb 23rd, 2019 - Physicians in most specialties frequently encounter patients with neurologic conditions. For most non-neurologists, postgraduate neurologic education is variable and often limited, so every medical school's curriculum must include clinical learnin...

Aug 1st, 2020 - An estimated 0.1%-0.8% of obstetric patients require admission to an intensive care unit (ICU) during pregnancy or the puerperium. When neurologic emergencies occur in pregnancy, collaboration between the neurointensivist, obstetric anesthesiologi...

Jun 2nd, 2020 - Two major pathogenic events that cause acute brain damage during neurologic emergencies of stroke, head trauma, and cardiac arrest are spreading depolarizing waves and the associated brain edema that course across the cortex injuring brain cells. ...

Apr 27th, 2020 - A careful history and thorough physical examination are necessary in patients presenting with acute neurologic dysfunction. Patients presenting with headache should be screened for red-flag criteria that suggest a dangerous secondary cause warrant...

Oct 22nd, 2019 - Computed tomography (CT) of the head is used worldwide to diagnose neurologic emergencies. However, expertise is required to interpret these scans, and even highly trained experts may miss subtle life-threatening findings. For head CT, a unique ch...

Feb 23rd, 2019 - Physicians in most specialties frequently encounter patients with neurologic conditions. For most non-neurologists, postgraduate neurologic education is variable and often limited, so every medical school's curriculum must include clinical learnin...

Feb 1st, 2016 - Neurologic emergencies such as acute stroke, status epilepticus, subarachnoid hemorrhage, neuromuscular weakness, and spinal cord injury affect millions of Americans yearly. 1,2 These conditions can be difficult to diagnose, and delays in recogniti.