Authors: Peter J D Andrews
Publish Date: 2003/06/18
Volume: 29, Issue: 8, Pages: 1214-1217
Abstract
Cerebrovascular accident is the leading cause of death and longterm disability world wide and it is therefore entirely appropriate that we should consider what critical care has to offer patients who suffer from this potentially devastating disease process 1 The paper by NavaretteNavarro et al 2 in this issue of Intensive Care Medicineexamines the 1year mortality and global functional outcome in severe stroke patients admitted to intensive care units in the south of Spain They link this with the resource usage of such patients In common with many of the publications of stroke management in intensive care the principal reason for admission to the various intensive care units was initial stroke severity or clinical deterioration after the onset of symptoms In the current paper severity of the stroke was assessed by the APACHE III score Glasgow Coma Score GCS and neurological lesion on CT scanning Functional recovery was assessed by the Barthel indexEditorial submitted to accompany Navarrete P RiveraFernandez R LopezMutuberria MT Galindo I Murillo F Dominguez JM Munoz A JimenezMoragas JM Nacle B VazquezMata G and EVASCAN Project Group 2003 Outcome prediction in terms of functional disability and mortality at 1 year among ICUadmitted severe stroke patients Intensive Care Med http//dxdoiorg/101007/s0013400317556
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