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How do you determine timing and frequency of stability scans for a patient with spontaneous, non-aneurysmal intracerebral hemorrhage?

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Neurology · The Ayer Neuroscience Institute at Hartford Hospital

We typically obtain a follow-up “stability scan” about 6 hours from the index scan. The AHA guidelines do not mention a specific timeframe. Situations, where we would consider sooner repeat imaging, would be clinical deterioration (increase in NIHSS by 4 or more points or decline in GCS by 2 or more...

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