Automated Long-Term EEG Review: Fast and Precise Analysis in Critical Care Patients.

Ongoing or recurrent seizure activity without prominent motor features is a common burden in neurological critical care patients and people with epilepsy during ICU stays. Continuous EEG (CEEG) is the gold standard for detecting ongoing ictal EEG patterns and monitoring functional brain activity. However CEEG review is very demanding and time consuming.

Severe Cerebral Venous and Sinus Thrombosis: Clinical Course, Imaging Correlates, and Prognosis.

Background: Severe cerebral venous-sinus thrombosis (CVT) is a rare disease, and its clinical course, imaging correlates, as well as long-term prognosis have not yet been investigated systematically.

Methods: Multicenter retrospective study. Inclusion criteria were CVT, Glasgow coma scale ≤9, and treatment in the intensive care unit.

Anticoagulant reversal, blood pressure levels, and anticoagulant resumption in patients with anticoagulation-related intracerebral hemorrhage.

Importance: Although use of oral anticoagulants (OACs) is increasing, there is a substantial lack of data on how to treat OAC-associated intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH).

Objective: To assess the association of anticoagulation reversal and blood pressure (BP) with hematoma enlargement and the effects of OAC resumption.

Design, Setting, And Participants: Retrospective cohort study at 19 German tertiary care centers (2006-2012) including 1176 individuals for analysis of long-term functional outcome, 853 for analysis of hematoma enlargement, and 719 for analysis of OAC resumption.

Hemicraniectomy in the management of space-occupying ischemic stroke.

A space-occupying mass effect is a common finding in several stroke subtypes. A large, intracranial mass is a potentially life-threatening complication, irrespective of its underlying origin, with transtentorial or transforaminal herniation being the common endpoint and often the cause of death. Prompt and adequate intervention is therefore required.

Hypoglycemic encephalopathy: a case series and literature review on outcome determination.

Data on clinical long-term outcome after the acute phase of hypoglycemic encephalopathy (HE) using validated outcome scales is currently unavailable. Here we report the results of a systematic literature search for studies on HE and data on long-term outcome in patients with HE admitted to three Charité hospitals between January 2005 and July 2010. HE was defined as coma/stupor and blood glucose levels <50 mg/dl on admission, persistence of coma/stupor for ≥24 h despite normalization of blood glucose levels, and exclusion of any other cause of coma/stupor.