Neurology

Critical Care

Questions discussed in this category

Do you maintain a strict platelet threshold of >50k when performing a lumbar puncture, or are there situations in which you feel comfortable with a lower threshold?

While many US guidelines have supported a threshold of > 50k, there does not appear to be robust data to support it. Notably, the 2025 AABB and ICT...

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In a patient with acute stroke/ICH/SDH/hyperammonemia at risk for rebound edema with new onset renal failure, do you prefer CRRT versus low and slow HD?

How frequently do you monitor osmolarity?

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How do you decide on the speed and target of blood pressure reduction for spontaneous intracranial hemorrhage?

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Under what circumstances do you recommend POCUS guidance for lumbar puncture?

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Do you routinely use pupillometry for serial neurologic examinations in the ICU, especially for patients at risk for transtentorial herniation?

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When do you usually introduce conversations regarding tracheostomy placement in patients with refractory status epilepticus, or other conditions where one may anticipate delayed awakening?

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Do you use or recommend clinical severity scores or other parameters in helping prognostication in patients with refractory status epilepticus?

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What is your hemoglobin target for PRBC transfusion in cases of acute brain injury?

Have recent trials (TRAIN trial and HEMOTION trial) influenced your approach?

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What blood pressure targets do you enforce in the first 24-48 hours in a patient who develops an intracranial hemorrhage after mechanical thrombectomy?

Blood pressure targets for ischemic stroke and intracerebral hemorrhage are described in several guidelines. However, in patients with acute stroke wh...

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Do you ever start a ketogenic diet in patients who present with status epilepticus admitted to the ICU?

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When do you consider ketamine to treat nonconvulsive status epilepticus?

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Do you choose an antibiotic with CSF penetration, such as nafcillin over cefazolin, in the setting of MSSA endocarditis with septic emboli to the brain (assuming no concomitant meningitis or brain abscess)?

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What is the expected timeframe one would expect to see paroxysmal sympathetic hyperactivity/sympathetic storming persist post-traumatic brain injury?

For example, in the setting of TBI, how do you guide the duration of the medical treatment?

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In what clinical scenarios do you utilize post-cardiac arrest targeted temperature management (TTM)?

In the span between the HACA trial and the Targeted Temperature Management in Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest study (Dankiewicz et al., PMID 34133859),...

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In patients being evaluated for brain death, which abnormal movements are definitively known to still be consistent with brain death and which are possibly consistent with brain death but lack definitive evidence?

What are the sources for this and are they reliable by today’s standards? Numerous case series report various abnormal movements but how reliabl...

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How do you complete brain death testing in patients who cannot tolerate apnea testing and are unable to transport for ancillary testing?

For instance, if the patient doesn’t tolerate apnea testing, is too unstable to go for ancillary testing outside the ICU, and TCDs/EEG are unava...

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