By: Eelco F. M. Wijdicks & David Y. Hwang  First Published: 23 August 2021 Abstract Coma trajectories are characterized by quick awakening or protracted awakening. Outcome is bookended by restored functionality or permanent cognitively and physically debilitated states. Given the stakes, prognostication ...

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 ...