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Signa vitae : journal for intesive care and emergency medicine, Vol. 7 No. 2, 2012.

Professional paper

Bilateral intracerebral hemorrhage following CPR

SUNG OH HWANG orcid id orcid.org/0000-0003-4585-3181 ; Department of Emergency Medicine, Wonju College of Medicine, Yonsei University, 162 Isandong, Wonju, Republic of Korea, 220-701
KYUNG CHUL CHA ; Department of Emergency Medicine, Wonju College of Medicine, Yonsei University, 162 Isandong, Wonju, Republic of Korea, 220-701
TUYET NGUYEN THI ; Department of Emergency Medicine, Wonju College of Medicine, Yonsei University, 162 Isandong, Wonju, Republic of Korea, 220-701
HYUNG JIN SHIN ; Department of Emergency Medicine, Wonju College of Medicine, Yonsei University, 162 Isandong, Wonju, Republic of Korea, 220-701
YONG SUNG CHA ; Department of Emergency Medicine, Wonju College of Medicine, Yonsei University, 162 Isandong, Wonju, Republic of Korea, 220-701
HYUN KIM ; Department of Emergency Medicine, Wonju College of Medicine, Yonsei University, 162 Isandong, Wonju, Republic of Korea, 220-701
KANG HYUN LEE ; Department of Emergency Medicine, Wonju College of Medicine, Yonsei University, 162 Isandong, Wonju, Republic of Korea, 220-701

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Abstract

Intracranial hemorrhage is an extremely rare complication following cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR). Only a few cases of subarachnoid hemorrhage during the post-resuscitation period have been reported in the literature. A 55 year-old man, who was resuscitated following a cardiac arrest, sustained an intracranial hemorrhage during the post cardiac arrest period. His brain computerized tomography (CT), performed 4 hours after return of spontaneous circulation, showed no signs of intracranial hemorrhage. However, a brain CT performed 7 days after cardiac arrest revealed a massive intracerebral hemorrhage in both basal ganglia and thalami with an associated subarachnoid hemorrhage. This paper reports the first case of intracerebral hemorrhages in bilateral basal ganglia and thalami that developed following cardiac arrest and resuscitation.

Keywords

cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR); intracranial hemorrhage; basal ganglia hemorrhage; cardiac arrest

Hrčak ID:

108711

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https://hrcak.srce.hr/108711

Publication date:

1.10.2012.

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