Disease-related malnutrition of neurocritical illness harms its treatment, which increases the mortality rate. The aim of this study was evaluating the effect of a high protein diet on the dietary factors, clinical outcome, and mortality rate of neurocritical patients. In a randomized controlled trial, 15 neurocritical patients were recruited in each group. Patients in the intervention and cont...

By means of computerized tomography (CT) diffuse cerebral swelling has been shown to exist in the early stages of severe acute head injury. But, to our knowledge, it has not been intensively studied in blunt head trauma. The purpose of this study is to elucidate the clinical features, pathogenesis and outcome of the patients with diffuse cerebral swelling occurring in the case of blunt head tra...

Disease-related malnutrition of neurocritical illness harms its treatment, which increases the mortality rate. The aim of this study was evaluating the effect of a high protein diet on the dietary factors, clinical outcome, and mortality rate of neurocritical patients. In a randomized controlled trial, 15 neurocritical patients were recruited in each group. Patients in the intervention and cont...

INTRODUCTION The Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) is widely applied in the emergency setting; it is used to guide trauma triage and for the application of essential interventions such as endotracheal intubation. However, inter-rater reliability of GCS scoring has been shown to be low for inexperienced users, especially for the motor component. Concerns regarding the accuracy and validity of GCS scoring...

Non-traumatic coma in childhood is an important pediatric emergency. It can result from a wide range of primary etiologies. Objective: To study the etiology and clinical profile of pediatric non-traumatic coma and to determine the clinical signs predictive of outcome. Setting: Pediatric emergency department (PED) at a tertiary care university teaching pediatric hospital from September 2007 to J...

Intraventricular hemorrhage (IVH) was associated with poor outcomes in patients with intracerebral hemorrhage. IVH had a high incidence in patients with ruptured arteriovenous malformations (AVMs). In this study, we aimed to discuss the clinical features and prognostic factors of outcomes in the patients with AVM-related IVH.From January 2010 to January 2016, we collected the data of the patien...

This study was performed to define the correlation between the level of consciousness based on Glasgow coma scale ( GCS), Glasgow outcome scale( GOS) and leukocyte count. Two hundred and thirty three patients ( female: 48, male: 185) ranged between 1-75 years old were studied. The results showed that there was a negative correlation between increasing leukocyte count and  GCS ( n=233.r= .0.3, p...

Results Therewere 31cases, for which 93 controlswere selected.Study variables associatedwith anincreasedriskof subsequent suicidewere anincrease inthe numberofdrugs ingested (oddsratio 2.59, 95% CI1.48^4.51), an increase inthe dose ingested (OR1.33,95% CI1.01^1.76), an increase in coma score (OR1.71,95% CI 1.11^2.66), a decrease in Glasgow Coma Score (OR1.21,95% CI1.03^1.43) and an increase in ...