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🧠 The Skull Is Not a Sealed Box: How AI Is Learning to Read Brain Pressure Without a Drill
For decades, measuring intracranial pressure (ICP) meant one thing: putting a hole in the skull. A bolt, a catheter, a strain gauge pushed into brain…
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🧠 The Stroke Surgery Trial That’s Forcing Neurosurgeons To Rethink The Rulebook
For decades, surgery for brain hemorrhage carried a quiet stigma. Two landmark trials had already tried to prove it works and came up empty. In…
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Rewriting the Rules for Brain Bleeds: What INTERACT3 Taught Us
Spontaneous intracerebral haemorrhage has long carried an air of clinical resignation, the diagnosis that quietly lowered everyone’s expectations before treatment had even begun. INTERACT3, published…
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Reading the Pupil Anew: Automated Pupillometry in Neurological Monitoring
For over a century, the pupillary examination has rested on a simple ritual: a clinician, a penlight, and a judgement rendered in an instant —…
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How Much Blood Does an Injured Brain Need? What do HEMOTION and TRAIN tell?
The messages For years, ICUs treated anemia in brain-injured patients like anemia in anyone else: transfuse only when hemoglobin falls to about 70 g/L. Two…
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Bedside Weaning Assessment for Myasthenia Gravis
Bedside Test Procedure Normal / Reassuring Value Clinical Significance (Red Flag) Clinical Assessment Observe for signs of respiratory distress and bulbar weakness (speech, swallowing). No…
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Pulsatility Index (PI)
The TCD Pulsatility Index (PI) is a parameter used in Transcranial Doppler (TCD) ultrasonography to evaluate the resistance to blood flow in cerebral vessels. It’s commonly used to assess cerebral hemodynamics, especially…
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Intrathecal Drug Delivery System in Prepontine Cistern for Craniofacial Cancer Pain
Placing the catheter tip of an intrathecal morphine pump into the prepontine cistern could effectively relieve refractory craniofacial cancer pain with an extremely low total…
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Anaesthesia Machine Checklist
✅ ASA Summary of Anesthesia Machine Checkout Recommendations 🔄 To Be Completed Daily 1. Verify that auxiliary oxygen cylinder and self-inflating manual ventilation device are available…