Publications by authors named "Carlton Christie"
Objective: The objective of this study was to determine risk factors predictive of external ventricular drain (EVD)-related hemorrhage and the association of such hemorrhages with mortality, discharge disposition, length of stay (LOS), and total cost.
Methods: After Institutional Review Board approval, data was collected retrospectively for adult patients requiring EVD placement from 2015 to 2018 at the authors' institution. Collected data included demographic patient information, peri-procedural factors, and relevant post-procedural measures.
Article Synopsis
- Charge balancing in deep brain stimulation (DBS) prevents damage from charge accumulation and involves techniques like passive recharge (waiting between pulses) and active recharge (sequential equal pulses).
- A study reviewed 65 patients who underwent DBS, comparing side effect thresholds for both recharge methods during intraoperative evaluations.
- Although there were differences in stimulation thresholds, they were not statistically significant; however, the passive recharge method showed a stronger correlation with follow-up thresholds than the active method.
Patient satisfaction scores with telemedicine in the neurosurgical population.
Clin Neurol Neurosurg
March 2021
Background: The benefits of telemedicine in neurosurgery have been widely studied, especially as its implementation into clinical practice boomed at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. However, few studies have investigated telemedicine from the perspective of the patient experience.
Objective: To evaluate patient satisfaction scores of telemedicine outpatient clinic visits in neurosurgery in comparison with in-person visits.
Background: The role of prophylactic antiepileptic drugs (AEDs) in preventing seizures and/or improving the outcomes after intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH) has remained controversial. The current guidelines have recommended against AED prophylaxis. However, these recommendations were based on older studies that had primarily used phenytoin as the AED of choice.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: Friedreich ataxia (FRDA) is an autosomal recessive ataxia resulting from mutations in the frataxin gene (FXN). Such mutations, usually expanded guanine-adenine-adenine (GAA) repeats, give rise to decreased levels of frataxin protein in both affected and unaffected tissues. The goal was to understand the relationship of frataxin levels in peripheral tissues to disease status.
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