By Christos Lazaridis & Ali Mansour First Online: 18 February 2021 Patients with large territorial supratentorial infarctions are at high risk of cerebral edema, increased intracranial pressure, tissue herniation and death. There is strong evidence supporting prompt decompressive craniectomy after ...

By Brian L. Edlow, Jan Claassen, Jonathan D. Victor, Emery N. Brown & Nicholas D. Schiff First Online: 10 November 2020 Survivors of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) around the world are coming off ventilators every day, having overcome multi-organ system failure and weeks sedated, paralyzed, ...

By Eelco F. M. Wijdicks First Online: 27 October 2020 We talk, text, email all day. Do we perceive things correctly? Do we need to improve the way we communicate? It is a truism that providing insufficient information about a patient results in delays and errors in management. How can we best communicate ...

By Phavalan Rajendram, Lowyl Notario, Cliff Reid, Charles R. Wira, Jose I. Suarez, Scott D. Weingart & Houman Khosravani First Online: 13 August 2020 Background and Purpose Management of stroke patients in the acute setting is a high-stakes task with several challenges including the need for rapid ...