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Hematological Challenges in Intensive Care Unit Patients with Neurological Disease

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Hematologic complications are common challenges in a neurological or neurosciences intensive care unit (NICU) due to the extent of neurological conditions encountered. This chapter will focus on traumatic brain injury (TBI) and intracranial hemorrhage (ICH), subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH), and ischemic stroke (IS) and will review the incidence and role of anemia, thrombocytopenia, coagulopathies, and leukocytosis in each of these diseases. The chapter will conclude on a review of medications affecting ICH, such as antiplatelets and anticoagulants, and the evidence behind the role of reversal agents in these conditions.

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