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Emergency Neurological Life Support: Subarachnoid Hemorrhage

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Subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) is a neurological emergency because it may lead to sudden neurological decline and death and, depending on the cause, has treatment options that can return a patient to normal. Because there are interventions that can be life-saving in the first hour of onset, SAH was chosen as an Emergency Neurological Life Support protocol.

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  1. Department of Emergency Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA

    Jonathan A. Edlow

  2. Department of Neurosurgery, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, USA

    Owen Samuels

  3. ENLS Course Co-Chair, Department of Neurology, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA

    Wade S. Smith

  4. ENLS Course Co-Chair, Division of ED Critical Care, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA

    Scott D. Weingart

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Edlow, J.A., Samuels, O., Smith, W.S. et al. Emergency Neurological Life Support: Subarachnoid Hemorrhage. Neurocrit Care 17 (Suppl 1), 47–53 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12028-012-9761-6

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