[Intensive care therapy of space-occupying large hemispheric infarction : Summary of the NCS/DGNI guidelines].

[Intensive care therapy of space-occupying large hemispheric infarction : Summary of the NCS/DGNI guidelines]. Nervenarzt. 2015 Jun 26; Authors: Bösel J, Schönenberger S, Dohmen C, Jüttler E, Staykov D, Zweckberger K, Hacke W, Schwab S, Torbey MT, Huttner HB, stellvertretend für die Teilnehmer der „International Consensus Conference on Critical Care Management of Patients Following Large Hemispheric Infarct“ der NCS und DGNI) Abstract Large hemispheric infarction (LHI), synonymously called malignant middle cerebral artery (MCA) infarction, is a severe neurological disease with a high mortality and morbidity. Treating physicians as well as relatives are often faced with few and low quality data when attempting to apply optimal treatment to these patients and make decisions. While current stroke treatment guidelines focus on risk factors, prevention and acute management, they include only limited recommendations concerning intensive care management of LHI. The Neurocritical Care Society (NCS) and the German Society for Neurocritical and Emergency Medicine (DGNI) organized an interdisciplinary consensus conference on intensive care management of LHI to meet this demand. European and American experts in neurology, neurocritical care, neurosurgery, neuroradiology and neuroanesthesiology were selected based on their expertise and research focus. Subgroups for several main topics elaborated a number of central clinical questions con...
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