Subarachnoid hemorrhage in the emergency department

S Patel, A Parikh, ON Okorie - International Journal of Emergency …, 2021 - Springer
Background Subarachnoid hemorrhage accounts for more than 30,000 cases of stroke
annually in North America and encompasses a 4.4% mortality rate. Since a vast number of …

Management of patients presenting to the emergency department with sudden onset severe headache: systematic review of diagnostic accuracy studies

M Walton, R Hodgson, A Eastwood… - Emergency Medicine …, 2022 - emj.bmj.com
Objective Advances in imaging technologies have precipitated uncertainty and
inconsistency in the management of neurologically intact patients presenting to the …

The role of imaging in the management of non-traumatic subarachnoid hemorrhage: a practical review

GD Khatri, B Sarikaya, NM Cross, JR Medverd - Emergency Radiology, 2021 - Springer
The purpose of this review is to understand the role of imaging in the diagnosis and
management of non-traumatic subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH). SAH is a life-threatening …

Characteristics and outcomes of intracranial hemorrhage in cancer patients visiting the emergency department

A Qdaisat, SCJ Yeung, CH Rojas Hernandez… - Journal of Clinical …, 2022 - mdpi.com
Intracranial hemorrhage (ICH) is a dreaded complication of both cancer and its treatment. To
evaluate the characteristics and clinical outcomes of cancer patients with ICH, we identified …

The value of cranial CT imaging in patients with headache at the emergency department

CMC Lemmens, MC Van der Linden… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Background: Headache is among the most prevalent complaints in patients presenting to the
emergency department (ED). Clinicians are faced with the difficult task to differentiate …

Assessment of diagnostic strategies based on risk stratification for aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage: a retrospective chart review

C Bianchi, FX Ageron, PN Carron - European Journal of …, 2021 - journals.lww.com
Assessment of diagnostic strategies based on risk stratifica... : European Journal of Emergency
Medicine Assessment of diagnostic strategies based on risk stratification for aneurysmal …

Diagnostic Value of D-dimer in Distinguishing between Spontaneous Subarachnoid Hemorrhage and Nontraumatic Acute Headache.

Y Zhang, P Yang, J Wang - Clinical Laboratory, 2019 - search.ebscohost.com
Background: Spontaneous subarachnoid hemorrhage (SSAH) and nontraumatic acute
headache patients presented with symptoms similar to headache. This study was to …

Headache Emergencies

D Kopel, C Peeler, S Zhu - Neurologic Clinics, 2021 - neurologic.theclinics.com
Nontraumatic headache is responsible for approximately 2% of all emergency department
(ED) visits. 1 With roughly 145 million total ED visits per year, 2 this means an average of …

Management of sudden onset severe headache patients presenting to the emergency Department: systematic review of diagnostic accuracy studies

M Walton, R Hodgson, A Eastwood… - Emergency Medicine …, 2022 - pure.york.ac.uk
Objective Advances in imaging technologies have precipitated uncertainty and
inconsistency in the management of neurologically intact patients presenting to the …

BET 1: The Ottawa Subarachnoid Hemorrhage Clinical Decision Rule shows high sensitivity but limited evidence of patient benefit

D Law, R Hirst, D Horner - Emergency Medicine Journal, 2021 - emj.bmj.com
A short-cut review of the literature was carried out to examine the diagnostic test
characteristics and potential patient benefits through the use of the Ottawa Subarachnoid …