Many neurocritically ill patients and their families have high amounts of palliative care
needs. Multiple professional societies relevant to neurocritical care have released …

Stroke is a leading cause of both death and disability worldwide. While most research has
focused on the first hours to days after acute stroke, much less is known about the …

Background Patients with a severe acute brain injury admitted to the intensive care unit often
have a poor neurological prognosis. In these situations, a clinician is responsible for …

Background: Surrogate communication with providers about prognosis in the setting of acute
critical illness can impact both patient treatment decisions and surrogate outcomes …

3406 Stroke December 2012 and emotional adaptation. 14 People, as opposed to patients,
fail to appreciate the extent to which they will accommodate because they tend to focus on …

In the neuroscience intensive care unit (NICU), most patients lack the capacity to make their
own preferences known. This fact leads to situations where surrogate decision makers must …

Background Over one third of stroke patients have cognitive or language deficits such that
they require surrogate consent for acute stroke treatment or enrollment into acute stroke …

Background The early subjective clinical judgment of clinicians outperforms formal
prognostic scales for accurate determination of outcome after intracerebral hemorrhage …

Despite advances in stroke care, patients continue to incur significant disability, are at risk
for future events, and are inconsistently comanaged with palliative care (PC) specialty …

Hallan S, Åsberg A, Indredavik B, Widerøe TE (University Hospital of Trondheim, Trondheim,
Norway). Quality of life after cerebrovascular stroke: a systematic study of patients' …