Addition of Brain Infarction to the ABCD 2 Score (ABCD 2 I)

Addition of Brain Infarction to the ABCD Score (ABCDI) A Collaborative Analysis of Unpublished Data on 4574 Patients

Matthew F. Giles, DPhil; Greg W. Albers, MD; Pierre Amarenco, MD; Murat M. Arsava, MD; Andrew Asimos, MD; Hakan Ay, MD; David Calvet, MD; Shelagh Coutts, MD; Brett L. Cucchiara, MD; Andrew M. Demchuk, MD; S. Claiborne Johnston, MD; Peter J. Kelly, MD; Anthony S. Kim, MD; Julien Labreuche, BS; Philippa C. Lavallee, MD; Jean-Louis Mas, MD; Aine Merwick, MB; Jean Marc Olivot, MD; Francisco Purroy;...

Is the ABCD score truly useful?

See related article, pages 1710–1714. The understanding of transient ischemic attack (TIA) has changed. The high early risk of stroke demands rapid assessment and treatment. Some patients, such as those with TIA attributable to an active carotid artery plaque, appear to be at higher risk than others.1 The direct result of this paradigm shift is the need to develop tools for stratifying patients...

Goodbye to ABCD resuscitation?

Validation of the ABCD²-I score to predict stroke risk after transient ischemic attack.

OBJECTIVES The primary aim of this study was to prospectively validate the predictive value of the ABCD²-I score and to then compare the predictive accuracy of the ABCD² score and ABCD²-I score for 1-year risk of stroke in admitted patients with transient ischemic attack (TIA) as defined by the World Health Organization (WHO) time-based criteria. METHODS Data were collected from patients with...

[The ABCD of resuscitation].

Reanimation is divided into two phases. The first phase, primary ABCD, consists of verifying the patient's responsiveness, activating the emergency system, requesting a defibrillator, establishing and maintaining the airway's patency, checking respiration, initiating artificial respiration when necessary, checking the circulation, in the absence of a pulse beginning with chest compressions, and...