Over the recent period, the use of induced hypothermia has gained an increasing interest for
critically ill patients, in particular in brain-injured patients. The term “targeted temperature …

An electronic literature search through August 2010 was performed to obtain articles
describing fever incidence, impact, and treatment in patients with subarachnoid …

Objective To review the published literature on the clinical application of cerebral
microdialysis (CMD) in aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) patients and to …

Both anaemia and blood transfusion are associated with poor outcomes in the neurosurgical
population. Based on the available literature, the optimal haemoglobin concentration for …

Advances in the care of high-risk newborn babies have contributed to reduced mortality
rates for premature and term births, but the surviving neonates often have increased …

OBJECTIVE: Fever during the first week after subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) is associated
with poor outcome; however, eliminating fever has not been shown to improve outcome. We …

Background and Purpose—Anemia after aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage is common
and potentially modifiable. Here, we first evaluate the effect of anemia on neurological …

Extracerebral complications, especially pulmonary and cardiovascular, are frequent in brain-
injured patients and are major outcome determinants. Two major pathways have been …

Acute ischaemic stroke is associated with a high risk of non-neurological complications,
which include respiratory failure, cardiovascular dysfunction, kidney and liver injury, and …

Infectious complications occur in up to 36% of patients admitted to the neurointensive care
unit (neuro-ICU) for more than 48 hours. 1 Most common are pneumonia, urinary tract …