A Unique Signature of Cardiac-Induced Cranial Forces During Acute Large Vessel Stroke and Development of a Predictive Model.

Journal: Neurocritical care
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Abstract

BACKGROUND: Cranial accelerometry is used to detect cerebral vasospasm and concussion. We explored this technique in a cohort of code stroke patients to see whether a signature could be identified to aid in the diagnosis of large vessel occlusion (LVO) stroke.

Authors

  • Wade S Smith
    UCSF Department of Neurology, University of California, San Francisco, 505 Parnassus Avenue, Room M-830, San Francisco, CA, 94143-0114, USA. wade.smith@ucsf.edu.
  • Kevin J Keenan
  • Paul A Lovoi
    UCSF Department of Neurology, University of California, San Francisco, 505 Parnassus Avenue, Room M-830, San Francisco, CA, 94143-0114, USA.