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Subarachnoid Hemorrhage

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Subarachnoid hemorrhage is a devastating disease with a high risk for poor functional long-term outcome. Poor outcome is a consequence of the initial severity of the SAH, but misdiagnosis and mismanagement have the potency to contribute to poor neurological functioning and include not performing the appropriate diagnostic tests initially and throughout the hospital course of an SAH patient including complications such as intracranial hypertension, hydrocephalus, rebleeding, delayed cerebral ischemia, hyponatremia, fever, hyperglycemia, and seizures.

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    Edgar Avalos Herrera MD, MsC

  2. Department of Emergency and Critical Care, Clinics Hospital, Universidad de la República School of Medicine, Montevideo, Uruguay

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Avalos Herrera, E., Puppo, C. (2015). Subarachnoid Hemorrhage. In: Wartenberg, K., Shukri, K., Abdelhak, T. (eds) Neurointensive Care. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-17293-4_8

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