RT Book, Section
A1 Haque, Raqeeb
A1 Kotchetkov, Ivan S.
A1 Hwang, Brian Y.
A1 Connolly, E. Sander
A2 Lee, Kiwon
SR Print(0)
ID 1101643763
T1 Brain Aneurysm and Arteriovenous Malformation Surgery
T2 The NeuroICU Book
YR 2012
FD 2012
PB McGraw-Hill Education
PP New York, NY
SN 9780071636353
LK neurology.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1101643763
RD 2024/04/19
AB Ruptured  intracranial  aneurysms.  A  56-year-old  man  is  admitted  to  the  neurologic  intensive  care  unit  (NICU,  NeuroICU)  after  he  develops  a  nonradiating  frontal  headache  associated  with  photophobia,  nausea,  and  one  episode  of  nonbilious,  nonbloody  vomiting  30  minutes  prior  to  his  arrival  at  the  emergency  department.  Noncontrast  head  computed  tomography  (CT)  is  consistent  with  acute  subarachnoid  hemorrhage—Blood  is  seen  in  the  middle  cerebral  artery  cisterns  extending  into  the  sylvian  fissures  bilaterally  (Figure  21-1).