Abstract
Delayed cerebral ischaemia remains a major cause of morbidity and mortality in those patients with subarachnoid haemorrhage (SAH) who survive the initial catastrophe. A recent study of 3521 SAH patients from 68 neurosurgical units found no difference in outcome between early surgery (0–3 days) and late surgery (11–14 days) (Kassell et al. 1990), and so the neurosurgeon is presented with the task of weighing up the possible relative risk of precipitating cerebral ischaemia by early surgery to clip the aneurysm against those of delaying surgery and increasing the chances of a second haemorrhage for each individual patient.
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Pickard, J.D. et al. (1992). Aspects of Cerebrovascular Autoregulation Following Subarachnoid Haemorrhage. In: Schmiedek, P., Einhäupl, K., Kirsch, CM. (eds) Stimulated Cerebral Blood Flow. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-77102-6_23
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