What Should a Clinician Do When Spreading Depolarizations are Observed in a Patient?

Cenk Ayata, Andrew Carlson, C William Shuttleworth, Martin Fabricius, Jens P Dreier, Eszter Farkas, Martyn G Boutelle, Eric Rosenthal, Laura Ngwenya, Raimund Helbok, Ramani Balu, Ari Ercole, Brandon Foreman, Sharon Jewel, Baptiste Balança, Alois Schiefecker, Jed A Hartings

Journal: Neurocritical care 2021;32(1):306-310

PMID: 31338747

Abstract

The International Conference on Spreading Depolarizations (iCSD) held in Boca Raton, Florida, in the September of 2018 devoted a section to address the question, "What should a clinician do when spreading depolarizations are observed in a patient?" Discussants represented a wide range of expertise, including neurologists, neurointensivists, neuroradiologists, neurosurgeons, and pre-clinical neuroscientists, to provide both clinical and basic pathophysiology perspectives. A draft summary of viewpoints offered was then written by a multidisciplinary writing group of iCSD members, based on a transcript of the session. Feedback of all discussants was formally collated, reviewed, and incorporated into the final document which was subsequently approved by all authors.

Address: Department of Neurology, Neurocritical Care, Medical University of Innsbruck, Anichstrasse 35, 6020, Innsbruck, Austria. [email protected].; Department of Neurosurgery, University of Cincinnati (UC) College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH, USA.; Collaborative for Research on Acute Neurologic Injury, University of Cincinnati (UC) College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH, USA.; UC Gardner Neuroscience Institute, Cincinnati, OH, USA.; Department of Neurology, Neurocritical Care, Medical University of Innsbruck, Anichstrasse 35, 6020, Innsbruck, Austria.; Center for Stroke Research Berlin, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Corporate Member of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and Berlin Institute of Health, Berlin, Germany.; Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Hospices Civils de Lyon, Hôpital Pierre Wertheimer, Lyon, France.; Lyon Neuroscience Research Centre, Lyon, France.; Centre Lyonnais d'Enseignement par la Simulation en Santé, SAMSEI, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Lyon, France.; Department of Basic and Clinical Neuroscience, King's College, London, UK.; Department of Bioengineering, Imperial College London, London, SW7 2AZ, UK.; Department of Neurology and Rehabilitation Medicine, University of Cincinnati (UC) College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH, USA.; Division of Anaesthesia, Department of Medicine, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB2 0QQ, UK.; Department of Neurology, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, USA.; Neurovascular Research Laboratory, Department of Radiology, Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown, USA.; Department of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, 02114, USA.; Department of Medical Informatics, University of Szeged, Szeged, H-6720, Hungary.; Department of Neurology, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate Member of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and Berlin Institute of Health, Berlin, Germany.; Department of Experimental Neurology, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate Member of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and Berlin Institute of Health, Berlin, Germany.; Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience Berlin, Berlin, Germany.; Einstein Center for Neurosciences Berlin, Berlin, Germany.; Department of Clinical Neurophysiology, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark.; Department of Neurosciences, University of New Mexico School of Medicine, Albuquerque, NM, 87131, USA.; Department of Neurosurgery, University of New Mexico School of Medicine, Albuquerque, NM, 87131, USA.
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