Rapid detection of recurrent intraventricular hemorrhage by ultrasound in a multiple trauma patient who had undergone craniectomy
1 Department of Emergency Medicine, Second Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine; Research Institute of Emergency Medicine Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310009, China
2 Research fellow, from Department of Emergency Medicine, the First Affiliated Hospital of Wenzhou Medical College, Wenzhou 325000, China
3 Department of Emergency Medicine, the First Affiliated Hospital of Wenzhou Medical College, Wenzhou 325000, China
Critical Care 2012, 16:459 doi:10.1186/cc11509
Published: 8 November 2012Abstract
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.
