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Intensive Care Management of Aneurysmal Subarachnoid Hemorrhage

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Yearbook of Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine 1999

Part of the book series: Yearbook of Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine ((YEARBOOK,volume 1999))

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Abstract

Subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) is comprehensively defined as the presence of blood in the subarachnoid space. SAH may be caused by a wide variety of pathologic conditions among which are trauma and secondary subarachnoidal involvement from parenchymal or ventricular hemorrhage. A subtype of SAH corresponding to bleeding of a vessel located in the subarachnoid space is designated as primary or spontaneous SAH. Being in most cases (80–85%) due to the rupture of a cerebral aneurysm, much less frequently to the bleeding of a brain arteriovenous malformation, this kind of SAH is also referred to as aneurysmal SAH.

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  1. M. M. Treggiari-Venzi
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  1. Department of Intensive Care, Erasme Hospital, Free University of Brussels, Route de Lennik 808, B-1070, Brussels, Belgium

    Jean-Louis Vincent (Clinical Director) (Clinical Director)

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Treggiari-Venzi, M.M., Romand, JA., Suter, P.M. (1999). Intensive Care Management of Aneurysmal Subarachnoid Hemorrhage. In: Vincent, JL. (eds) Yearbook of Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine 1999. Yearbook of Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine, vol 1999. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-13453-5_31

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