ALLMedicine™ Epidural Hematoma Center

Sep 7th, 2021 - Injuries suffered while participating in extreme sports account for numerous emergency department visits. Isolated head injuries are a common presentation. Zorbing is an activity native to New Zealand. Like many emerging extreme sports there is li...

Aug 21st, 2021 - To determine the prognostic risk factors of patients with acute epidural hematoma (AEDH), a scoring system was established based on gray-white matter ratio (GWR) and internal verification was performed.All patients with AEDH who underwent surgical...

Jul 31st, 2021 - Spine surgery is one of the specialties with the highest medicolegal risk, with a legal action initiated every 17 months per practitioner. One of the most dreaded complications is an epidural hematoma with postoperative deficit. The treatment of t...

Jul 9th, 2021 - Spontaneous spinal epidural hematoma (SSEH) is considered to be a relatively rare disease that can result in serious neurological sequelae. The pathogenesis and risk factors of SSEH are still unknown, and its differential diagnosis varies widely. ...

Jul 7th, 2021 - Spontaneous spinal epidural hematoma (SSEH) is a rare neurologic entity, especially in infants, that develops in the absence of underlying coagulopathy, bleeding diathesis, infection, vascular malformation, trauma, iatrogenic, or other identifiabl...

Feb 6th, 2019 - Interventional pain management involves diagnosis and treatment of chronic pain. This specialty utilizes minimally invasive procedures to target therapeutics to the central nervous system and the spinal column. A subset of patients encountered in ...

Sep 24th, 2019 - The defendant physician did a good job of documenting a negative neurologic exam, which helped him convince the jury that the patient did not have any signs or symptoms when first evaluated. But in this patient, was imaging to rule out intracrania.

Nov 15th, 2018 - Assessing Risk for More Severe Head Injury Twelve hours later, he was experiencing photophobia, nausea, vomiting, and headache. His mother took him to a nearby hospital. A repeat CT scan was ordered, which showed a slightly larger contusion withou...

May 16th, 2018 - ANSWER The image shows a large, convex hyperdensity within the left parietal region. This is a textbook image of an acute epidural hematoma.

Dec 5th, 2017 - Most patients with mild traumatic brain injury recover in 48-72 hours, even with detailed neuropsychological testing, and are headache free within 2-4 weeks of the injury. Obtain a more detailed history of emotional, concentration, and associated ...

May 4th, 2016 - Unilateral weakness is a common ED presentation with a diverse etiology, including stroke. 1,2 Studies have reported a misdiagnosis rate of stroke and transient ischemic attack of approximately 10%.