Rapid detection of recurrent intraventricular hemorrhage by ultrasound in a multiple trauma patient who had undergone craniectomy

Crit Care. 2012 Nov 8;16(6):459. doi: 10.1186/cc11509.

Abstract

Ultrasound may be a useful tool to evaluate intracranial abnormalities in critically ill patients undergoing decompressive craniectomy. We present a multiple trauma patient who had undergone craniectomy and in whom recurrent intraventricular hemorrhage and patterns of cerebral blood flow were rapidly detected by ultrasound.

Publication types

  • Case Reports
  • Letter

MeSH terms

  • Accidental Falls
  • Adult
  • Cerebrovascular Circulation
  • Decompressive Craniectomy*
  • Humans
  • Intracranial Hemorrhages / diagnostic imaging*
  • Male
  • Multiple Trauma / diagnostic imaging*
  • Neuroimaging
  • Recurrence
  • Tomography, X-Ray Computed
  • Ultrasonography