Category: Neuroprotection

Basic Sciences & Physiology · Neurocritical Care · Neuroprotection · Neurotrauma · Traumatic Brain Injury

Rethinking Neuroprotection in Severe Traumatic Brain Injury: Toward Bedside Neuroprotection

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Summer is in its last month so it’s time to get back to the NeuroScand grind. And we do so with this article by Zoerle and colleagues (among whom we can count Dr. Nino Stocchetti), published in July in Frontiers in Neurology. “Rethinking Neuroprotection in Severe Traumatic Brain Injury: Toward Bedside Neuroprotection” starts off by… Continue reading Rethinking Neuroprotection in Severe Traumatic Brain Injury: Toward Bedside Neuroprotection

Hypothermia · Neurocritical Care · Seizure Control

HYBERNATUS Trial: Hypothermia Not Associated With Better Outcomes in Status Epilepticus

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Results from the HYBERNATUS trial were just published in the New England Journal of Medicine by Legriel et al. This study recruited 270 patients with convulsive status epilepticus, randomized to either therapeutic hypothermia (32-34 C) or normothermia. All patients were intubated and on controlled ventilation when included. All received standard antiepileptic pharmacological treatment. Primary outcome… Continue reading HYBERNATUS Trial: Hypothermia Not Associated With Better Outcomes in Status Epilepticus

Hypothermia · ICP/CPP management · Neuroprotection · TBI General · Traumatic Brain Injury

Eurotherm 3235 Trial

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The long-awaited Eurotherm trial was published in NEJM in autumn 2015. The premise of the study was to examine the impact of induced hypothermia on outcomes after traumatic brain injury. In a multi center randomized controlled trial patients were allocated to either therapeutic hypothermia (32-35 degrees) or the control group (standard care, normothermia). The study… Continue reading Eurotherm 3235 Trial

Hypothermia · Neuroprotection

Cochrane Review – Hypothermia for Neuroprotection after Cardiac Arrest

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Just off the press: Cochrane Collaboration Review of the use of therapeutic hypothermia after cardiopulmonary resuscitation. “Evidence of moderate quality suggests that conventional cooling methods provided to induce mild therapeutic hypothermia improve neurological outcome after cardiac arrest, specifically with better outcomes than occur with no temperature management” The updated Cochrane review goes a long way… Continue reading Cochrane Review – Hypothermia for Neuroprotection after Cardiac Arrest

Aneurysm Surgery · Hypothermia · Neuroprotection

From the IHAST Investigators: Effects of intraoperative hypothermia on neuropsychological outcomes after intracranial aneurysm surgery

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“There was no difference in the incidence of impairment between hypothermic and normothermic groups” Abstract: Effects of intraoperative hypothermia on neuropsychological outcomes after intracranial aneurysm surgery. Ann Neurol 2006. Anderson et al.

Aneurysm Surgery · Hypothermia · Neuroprotection

Intraoperative Hypothermia for Aneurysm Surgery Trial (IHAST) Investigators. Mild intraoperative hypothermia during surgery for intracranial aneurysm

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Free full-text via PubMed at: Intraoperative Hypothermia for Aneurysm Surgery Trial (IHAST) Investigators. Mild intraoperative hypothermia during surgery for intracranial aneurysm. Todd et al. NEJM 2005. “Intraoperative hypothermia did not improve the neurologic outcome after craniotomy among good-grade patients with aneurysmal subarachnoid haemorrhage”