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Ten false beliefs in neurocritical care

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  1. Department of Intensive Care Medicine, University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

    Geert Meyfroidt

  2. Faculty of Medicine, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

    Geert Meyfroidt

  3. Division of Anaesthesia, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK

    David Menon

  4. Neurosciences Critical Care Unit, Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge, UK

    David Menon

  5. Queens’ College, Cambridge, UK

    David Menon

  6. National Institute for Health Research, Cambridge, UK

    David Menon

  7. European Brain Injury Consortium, Cambridge, UK

    David Menon

  8. Division of Critical Care Medicine, Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, and CHU de Québec–Université Laval Research Center, Université Laval, Québec City, QC, Canada

    Alexis F. Turgeon

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Meyfroidt, G., Menon, D. & Turgeon, A.F. Ten false beliefs in neurocritical care. Intensive Care Med 44, 2222–2224 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00134-018-5131-y

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Keywords

  • Neurocritical Care
  • National Institutes Of Health Stroke Scale (NIHSS)
  • Neglecting Measurement Errors
  • Aggressive Fluid Loading
  • Late Neurological Deterioration