Glasgow Coma Scale in the prediction of outcome after early aneurysm surgery

Neurosurgery

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 19-25

  Gotoh, Osamu ^a,b   Tamura, Akira ^b   Yasui, Nobuyuki ^c   Suzuki, Akifumi ^c   Hadeishi, Hiromu ^c   Sano, Keiji ^b  

^a Shinagawa ku   (Japan)

^b TEIKYO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR BRAIN AND BLOOD VESSELS AKITA   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cerebral aneurysm; Early surgical intervention; Glasgow Coma Scale; Grading system; Subarachnoid hemorrhage

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANEURYSM SURGERY; ARTICLE; BRAIN ARTERY ANEURYSM; CONSCIOUSNESS; EVALUATION AND FOLLOW UP; FEMALE; HUMAN; INJURY SCALE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANEURYSM, RUPTURED; BRAIN DAMAGE, CHRONIC; DISABILITY EVALUATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL ANEURYSM; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0029957732     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006123-199607000-00005     Document Type: Article

References (15)

1. Botterell EH, Lougheed WM, Scott JW, Vandewater SL: Hypothermia and interruption of carotid, or carotid and vertebral circulation, in the surgical management of intracranial aneurysms. J Neurosurg 13:1-42, 1956.
2. Drake CG: Report of World Federation of Neurological Surgeons Committee on a universal subarachnoid hemorrhage grading scale. J Neurosurg 68:985-986, 1988 (letter).
3. Gennarelli TA, Spielman GM, Langfitt TW, Gildenberg PL, Harrington T, Jane JA, Marshall LE, Miller JD, Pitts LH: Influence of the type of intracranial lesion on the outcome from severe head injury: A multicenter study using a new classification system. J Neurosurg 56:26-32, 1982.
4. Hunt WE, Hess RM: Surgical risk as related to time of intervention in the repair of intracranial aneurysms. J Neurosurg 28:14-20, 1968.
5. Jagger J, Torner JC, Kassell NM: Neurologic assessment of subarachnoid hemorrhage in a large patient series. Surg Neurol 32:327-333, 1989.
6. Jennett B, Bond M: Assessment of outcome after severe brain damage: A practical scale. Lancet 1:480-484, 1975.
7. Jennett B, Teasdale G: Aspects of coma after severe head injury. Lancet 23:878-881, 1977.
8. Kassell NF, Torner JC, Haley EC Jr, Jane JA, Adams HP, Kongable GL: The International Cooperative Study on the Timing of Aneurysm Surgery: Part 1 - Overall management results. J Neurosurg 73:18-36, 1990.
9. Kassell NF, Torner JC, Jane JA, Haley EC Jr, Adams HP: The International Cooperative Study on the Timing of Aneurysm Surgery: Part 2 - Surgical results. J Neurosurg 73:37-47, 1990.
10. Lindsay KW, Teasdale G, Knill-Jones RP: Observer variability in assessing the clinical features of subarachnoid hemorrhage. J Neurosurg 58:57-62, 1983.
11. Lindsay KW, Teasdale G, Knill-Jones RP, Murray L: Observer variability in grading patients with subarachnoid hemorrhage. J Neurosurg 56:628-633, 1982.
12. Nishioka H: Report on the Cooperative Study of Intracranial Aneurysms and Subarachnoid Hemorrhage: Section VII - Part I: Evaluation of conservative management of ruptured intracranial aneurysms. J Neurosurg 25:574-592, 1966.
13. Sahs AL, Nibbelink DW, Torner JC: Randomized treatment study, in Aneurysmal Subarachnoid Hemorrhage. Baltimore, Urban & Schwarzenberg, 1981, pp 27-58.
14. Starmark JE, Holmgren E, Stalhammar D: Current reporting of responsiveness in acute cerebral disorders: A survey of the neurosurgical literature. J Neurosurg 69:692-698, 1988.
15. Torner JC, Kassell NF, Adams HP Jr, Woolson RF, Frankowski RF: Reliability of neurological grading scales in subarachnoid hemorrhage: Report of the Cooperative Aneurysm Study, in Plum F, Pulsinelli W (eds): Cerebrovascular Diseases. New York, Raven Press, 1985, pp 77-84.