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{"title":"Endovascular Therapy for Severe Cerebral Venous Sinus Thrombosis: Time is Vein?","authors":"Joseph D Burns, Emanuele Orru","doi":"10.1007/s12028-024-02045-8","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s12028-024-02045-8","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":19118,"journal":{"name":"Neurocritical Care","volume":" ","pages":"728-729"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2024-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141748675","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Efficacy and Safety of Early Treatment with Glibenclamide in Patients with Aneurysmal Subarachnoid Hemorrhage: A Randomized Controlled Trial.","authors":"Qing Lin, Dawei Zhou, Jiawei Ma, Jingwei Zhao, Guangqiang Chen, Lei Wu, Tong Li, Shangfeng Zhao, Honglin Wen, Huixian Yu, Shaolan Zhang, Kai Gao, Rongli Yang, Guangzhi Shi","doi":"10.1007/s12028-024-01999-z","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s12028-024-01999-z","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>This study aims to investigate the efficacy and safety of glibenclamide treatment in patients with acute aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage (aSAH).</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>The randomized controlled trial was conducted from October 2021 to May 2023 at two university-affiliated hospitals in Beijing, China. The study included patients with aSAH within 48 h of onset, of whom were divided into the intervention group and the control group according to the random number table method. Patients in the intervention group received glibenclamide tablet 3.75 mg/day for 7 days. The primary end points were the levels of serum neuron-specific enolase (NSE) and soluble protein 100B (S100B) between the two groups. Secondary end points included evaluating changes in the midline shift and the gray matter-white matter ratio, as well as assessing the modified Rankin Scale scores during follow-up. The trial was registered at ClinicalTrials.gov (identifier NCT05137678).</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>A total of 111 study participants completed the study. The median age was 55 years, and 52% were women. The mean admission Glasgow Coma Scale was 10, and 58% of the Hunt-Hess grades were no less than grade III. The baseline characteristics of the two groups were similar. On days 3 and 7, there were no statistically significant differences observed in serum NSE and S100B levels between the two groups (P > 0.05). The computer tomography (CT) values of gray matter and white matter in the basal ganglia were low on admission, indicating early brain edema. However, there were no significant differences found in midline shift and gray matter-white matter ratio (P > 0.05) between the two groups. More than half of the patients had a beneficial outcome (modified Rankin Scale scores 0-2), and there were no statistically significant differences between the two groups. The incidence of hypoglycemia in the two groups were 4% and 9%, respectively (P = 0.439).</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Treating patients with early aSAH with oral glibenclamide did not decrease levels of serum NSE and S100B and did not improve the poor 90-day neurological outcome. In the intervention group, there was a visible decreasing trend in cases of delayed cerebral ischemia, but no statistically significant difference was observed. The incidence of hypoglycemia did not differ significantly between the two groups.</p>","PeriodicalId":19118,"journal":{"name":"Neurocritical Care","volume":" ","pages":"828-839"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2024-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141907218","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Verification of Death by Neurologic Criteria: A Survey of 12 Organ Procurement Organizations Across the United States.","authors":"Kasra Sarhadi, Kristopher A Hendershot, Natalie Smith, Michael Souter, Claire Creutzfeldt, Abhijit Lele, Carolina Maciel, Katharina Busl, Julius Balogh, David Greer, Ariane Lewis, Sarah Wahlster","doi":"10.1007/s12028-024-02001-6","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s12028-024-02001-6","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services requires Organ Procurement Organizations (OPOs) to verify and document that any potential organ donor has been pronounced dead per applicable legal requirements of local, state, and federal laws. However, OPO practices regarding death by neurologic criteria (DNC) verification are not standardized, and little is known about their DNC verification processes. This study aimed to explore OPO practices regarding DNC verification in the United States.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>An electronic survey was sent to all 57 OPOs in the United States from June to September 2023 to assess verification of policies and practices versus guidelines, concerns about policies and practices, processes to address concerns about DNC determination, and communication practices.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Representatives from 12 OPOs across six US regions completed the entire survey; 8 of 12 reported serving > 50 referral hospitals. Most respondents (11 of 12) reported comparing their referral hospital's DNC policies with the 2010 American Academy of Neurology Practice Parameter and/or other (4 of 12) guidelines. Additionally, most (10 of 12) reported independently reviewing and verifying each DNC determination. Nearly half (5 of 12) reported concerns about guideline-discordant hospital policies, and only 3 of 12 thought all referral hospitals followed the 2010 American Academy of Neurology Practice Parameter in practice. Moreover, 9 of 12 reported concerns about clinician knowledge surrounding DNC determination, and most (10 of 12) reported having received referrals for patients whose DNC declaration was ultimately reversed. All reported experiences in which their OPO requested additional assessments (11 of 12 clinical evaluation, 10 of 12 ancillary testing, 9 of 12 apnea testing) because of concerns about DNC determination validity.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Accurate DNC determination is important to maintain public trust. Nearly all OPO respondents reported a process to verify hospital DNC policies and practices with medical society guidelines. Many reported concerns about clinician knowledge surrounding DNC determination and guideline-discordant policies and practices. Educational and regulatory advocacy efforts are needed to facilitate systematic implementation of guideline-concordant practices across the country.</p>","PeriodicalId":19118,"journal":{"name":"Neurocritical Care","volume":" ","pages":"847-854"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2024-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140944867","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Resting-State EEG Signature of Early Consciousness Recovery in Comatose Patients with Traumatic Brain Injury.","authors":"Ayham Alkhachroum, Emilia Fló, Brian Manolovitz, Holly Cohan, Berje Shammassian, Danielle Bass, Gabriela Aklepi, Esther Monexe, Pardis Ghamasaee, Evie Sobczak, Daniel Samano, Ana Bolaños Saavedra, Nina Massad, Mohan Kottapally, Amedeo Merenda, Joacir Graciolli Cordeiro, Jonathan Jagid, Andres M Kanner, Tatjana Rundek, Kristine O'Phelan, Jan Claassen, Jacobo D Sitt","doi":"10.1007/s12028-024-02005-2","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s12028-024-02005-2","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Resting-state electroencephalography (rsEEG) is usually obtained to assess seizures in comatose patients with traumatic brain injury (TBI). We aim to investigate rsEEG measures and their prediction of early recovery of consciousness in patients with TBI.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>This is a retrospective study of comatose patients with TBI who were admitted to a trauma center (October 2013 to January 2022). Demographics, basic clinical data, imaging characteristics, and EEGs were collected. We calculated the following using 10-min rsEEGs: power spectral density, permutation entropy (complexity measure), weighted symbolic mutual information (wSMI, global information sharing measure), Kolmogorov complexity (Kolcom, complexity measure), and heart-evoked potentials (the averaged EEG signal relative to the corresponding QRS complex on electrocardiography). We evaluated the prediction of consciousness recovery before hospital discharge using clinical, imaging, and rsEEG data via a support vector machine.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>We studied 113 of 134 (84%) patients with rsEEGs. A total of 73 (65%) patients recovered consciousness before discharge. Patients who recovered consciousness were younger (40 vs. 50 years, p = 0.01). Patients who recovered also had higher Kolcom (U = 1688, p = 0.01), increased beta power (U = 1,652 p = 0.003) with higher variability across channels (U = 1534, p = 0.034) and epochs (U = 1711, p = 0.004), lower delta power (U = 981, p = 0.04), and higher connectivity across time and channels as measured by wSMI in the theta band (U = 1636, p = 0.026; U = 1639, p = 0.024) than those who did not recover. The area under the receiver operating characteristic curve for rsEEG was higher than that for clinical data (using age, motor response, pupil reactivity) and higher than that for the Marshall computed tomography classification (0.69 vs. 0.66 vs. 0.56, respectively; p < 0.001).</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>We describe the rsEEG signature in recovery of consciousness prior to discharge in comatose patients with TBI. rsEEG measures performed modestly better than the clinical and imaging data in predicting recovery.</p>","PeriodicalId":19118,"journal":{"name":"Neurocritical Care","volume":" ","pages":"855-865"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2024-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141174783","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Comparison of Continuous Intracortical and Scalp Electroencephalography in Comatose Patients with Acute Brain Injury.","authors":"José L Fernández-Torre, Miguel A Hernández-Hernández, Marina S Cherchi, David Mato-Mañas, Enrique Marco de Lucas, Elsa Gómez-Ruiz, José L Vázquez-Higuera, Félix Fanjul-Vélez, José L Arce-Diego, Rubén Martín-Láez","doi":"10.1007/s12028-024-02016-z","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s12028-024-02016-z","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Depth electroencephalography (dEEG) is a recent invasive monitoring technique used in patients with acute brain injury. This study aimed to describe in detail the clinical manifestations of nonconvulsive seizures (NCSzs) with and without a surface EEG correlate, analyze their long-standing effects, and provide data that contribute to understanding the significance of certain scalp EEG patterns observed in critically ill patients.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>We prospectively enrolled a cohort of 33 adults with severe acute brain injury admitted to the neurological intensive care unit. All of them underwent multimodal invasive monitoring, including dEEG. All patients were scanned on a 3T magnetic resonance imaging scanner at 6 months after hospital discharge, and mesial temporal atrophy (MTA) was calculated using a visual scale.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>In 21 (65.6%) of 32 study participants, highly epileptiform intracortical patterns were observed. A total of 11 (34.3%) patients had electrographic or electroclinical seizures in the dEEG, of whom 8 had both spontaneous and stimulus-induced (SI) seizures, and 3 patients had only spontaneous intracortical seizures. An unequivocal ictal scalp correlate was observed in only 3 (27.2%) of the 11 study participants. SI-NCSzs occurred during nursing care, medical procedures, and family visits. Subtle clinical manifestations, such as restlessness, purposeless stereotyped movements of the upper limbs, ventilation disturbances, jerks, head movements, hyperextension posturing, chewing, and oroalimentary automatisms, occurred during intracortical electroclinical seizures. MTA was detected in 18 (81.8%) of the 22 patients. There were no statistically significant differences between patients with MTA with and without seizures or status epilepticus.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Most NCSzs in critically ill comatose patients remain undetectable on scalp EEG. SI-NCSzs frequently occur during nursing care, medical procedures, and family visits. Semiology of NCSzs included ictal minor signs and subtle symptoms, such as breathing pattern changes manifested as patient-ventilator dyssynchrony.</p>","PeriodicalId":19118,"journal":{"name":"Neurocritical Care","volume":" ","pages":"903-915"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2024-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141450986","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Language of the UDDA is Sufficiently Precise and Pragmatic.","authors":"Eelco F M Wijdicks, Christopher Burkle","doi":"10.1007/s12028-024-02004-3","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s12028-024-02004-3","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>We have a reason to value the Uniform Determination of Death Act (UDDA). Since enactment, the UDDA has been of paramount importance to US citizens, families of comatose patients, and the health care professionals who care for them. The UDDA sets forth two standards for determining death and leaves to the medical community to elaborate criteria by which physicians can determine when those standards have been met. Neurologists and neurocritical care experts always have been center stage in this effort. Perfectly established, why change it? What ignited the recent review of the UDDA were lawsuits questioning medical (neurological) authority leading to the wording and accuracy of the UDDA being revisited. The major objections to the language of the UDDA by several groups led a committee appointed by the Uniform Law Commission to consider several substantial changes in the Act. After several years of discussion without reaching a consensus, the committee's chair suspended the effort. Upending the UDDA will lead to a legal crisis and confusion across the states. We present our main arguments against revising this statute and argue that the committee's failure to revise the UDDA should actually be seen as a necessary success.</p>","PeriodicalId":19118,"journal":{"name":"Neurocritical Care","volume":" ","pages":"719-722"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2024-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141306427","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Authors Reply: Sex Differences in Outcome of Aneurysmal Subarachnoid Hemorrhage and its Relation to Postoperative Cerebral Ischemia.","authors":"Cheng Yang, Hongping Miao","doi":"10.1007/s12028-024-02125-9","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s12028-024-02125-9","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":19118,"journal":{"name":"Neurocritical Care","volume":" ","pages":"1117-1118"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2024-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142308207","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Social Determinants of Health and Limitation of Life-Sustaining Therapy in Neurocritical Care: A CHoRUS Pilot Project.","authors":"Gloria Hyunjung Kwak, Hera A Kamdar, Molly J Douglas, Hui Hu, Sophie E Ack, India A Lissak, Andrew E Williams, Nirupama Yechoor, Eric S Rosenthal","doi":"10.1007/s12028-024-02007-0","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s12028-024-02007-0","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Social determinants of health (SDOH) have been linked to neurocritical care outcomes. We sought to examine the extent to which SDOH explain differences in decisions regarding life-sustaining therapy, a key outcome determinant. We specifically investigated the association of a patient's home geography, individual-level SDOH, and neighborhood-level SDOH with subsequent early limitation of life-sustaining therapy (eLLST) and early withdrawal of life-sustaining therapy (eWLST), adjusting for admission severity.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>We developed unique methods within the Bridge to Artificial Intelligence for Clinical Care (Bridge2AI for Clinical Care) Collaborative Hospital Repository Uniting Standards for Equitable Artificial Intelligence (CHoRUS) program to extract individual-level SDOH from electronic health records and neighborhood-level SDOH from privacy-preserving geomapping. We piloted these methods to a 7 years retrospective cohort of consecutive neuroscience intensive care unit admissions (2016-2022) at two large academic medical centers within an eastern Massachusetts health care system, examining associations between home census tract and subsequent occurrence of eLLST and eWLST. We matched contextual neighborhood-level SDOH information to each census tract using public data sets, quantifying Social Vulnerability Index overall scores and subscores. We examined the association of individual-level SDOH and neighborhood-level SDOH with subsequent eLLST and eWLST through geographic, logistic, and machine learning models, adjusting for admission severity using admission Glasgow Coma Scale scores and disorders of consciousness grades.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Among 20,660 neuroscience intensive care unit admissions (18,780 unique patients), eLLST and eWLST varied geographically and were independently associated with individual-level SDOH and neighborhood-level SDOH across diagnoses. Individual-level SDOH factors (age, marital status, and race) were strongly associated with eLLST, predicting eLLST more strongly than admission severity. Individual-level SDOH were more strongly predictive of eLLST than neighborhood-level SDOH.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Across diagnoses, eLLST varied by home geography and was predicted by individual-level SDOH and neighborhood-level SDOH more so than by admission severity. Structured shared decision-making tools may therefore represent tools for health equity. Additionally, these findings provide a major warning: prognostic and artificial intelligence models seeking to predict outcomes such as mortality or emergence from disorders of consciousness may be encoded with self-fulfilling biases of geography and demographics.</p>","PeriodicalId":19118,"journal":{"name":"Neurocritical Care","volume":" ","pages":"866-879"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2024-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141284321","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy Reduces the Traumatic Brain Injury-Mediated Neuroinflammation Through Enrichment of Prevotella Copri in the Gut of Male Rats.","authors":"Tee-Tau Eric Nyam, Hsiao-Yue Wee, Min-Hsi Chiu, Kuan-Chi Tu, Che-Chuan Wang, Yao-Tsung Yeh, Ching-Lung Kuo","doi":"10.1007/s12028-024-01997-1","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s12028-024-01997-1","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Gastrointestinal dysfunction frequently occurs following traumatic brain injury (TBI) and significantly increases posttraumatic complications. TBI can lead to alterations in gut microbiota. The neuroprotective effects of hyperbaric oxygen (HBO) have not been well recognized after TBI. The study''s aim was to investigate the impact of HBO on TBI-induced dysbiosis in the gut and the pathological changes in the brain following TBI.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Anesthetized male Sprague-Dawley rats were randomly assigned to three groups: sham surgery plus normobaric air (21% oxygen at 1 atmospheres absolute), TBI (2.0 atm) plus normobaric air, and TBI (2.0 atm) plus HBO (100% oxygen at 2.0 atmospheres absolute) for 60 min immediately after TBI, 24 h later, and 48 h later. The brain injury volume, tumor necrosis factor-α expression in microglia and astrocytes, and neuronal apoptosis in the brain were subsequently determined. The V3-V4 regions of 16S ribosomal rRNA in the fecal samples were sequenced, and alterations in the gut microbiome were statistically analyzed. All parameters were evaluated on the 3rd day after TBI.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Our results demonstrated that HBO improved TBI-induced neuroinflammation, brain injury volume, and neuronal apoptosis. HBO appeared to increase the abundance of aerobic bacteria while inhibiting anaerobic bacteria. Intriguingly, HBO reversed the TBI-mediated decrease in Prevotella copri and Deinococcus spp., both of which were negatively correlated with neuroinflammation and brain injury volume. TBI increased the abundance of these gut bacteria in relation to NOD-lik0065 receptor signaling and the proteasome pathway, which also exhibited a positive correlation trend with neuro inflammation and apoptosis. The abundance of Prevotella copri was negatively correlated with NOD-like receptor signaling and the Proteasome pathway.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Our study demonstrated how the neuroprotective effects of HBO after acute TBI might act through reshaping the TBI-induced gut dysbiosis and reversing the TBI-mediated decrease of Prevotella copri.</p>","PeriodicalId":19118,"journal":{"name":"Neurocritical Care","volume":" ","pages":"798-812"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2024-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140944856","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Early Celecoxib Use in Spontaneous Intracerebral Hemorrhage is Associated with Reduced Mortality.","authors":"Bao Y Sciscent, David R Hallan, Debarati Bhanja, Jacob Staub, Derek Crossman, Elias B Rizk, J Christopher Zacko, Haejoe Park, Sprague W Hazard","doi":"10.1007/s12028-024-01996-2","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s12028-024-01996-2","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Hemorrhagic strokes constitute 10-15% of all strokes and have the worst mortality and morbidity of all subtypes. Mortality and morbidity of spontaneous intracerebral hemorrhage (sICH) are often secondary to the effects of inflammation, brain edema, and swelling. Studies have shown that celecoxib, a selective cyclooxygenase 2 (COX-2) inhibitor, reduces perihematomal edema formation and inflammation. This study aimed to examine the impact of celecoxib on sICH outcomes.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>TriNetX, a multi-institutional research database, was retrospectively queried to identify patients with sICH. Outcomes in patients who received celecoxib within 5 days (cohort 1) were analyzed and compared to those in patients who did not receive celecoxib (cohort 2). The primary end point was mortality within 1 year of sICH. Secondary end points included ventilator dependence, tracheostomy, percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy tube placement, craniotomy, deep venous thrombosis, pulmonary embolism, ischemic stroke, transient ischemia attack, myocardial infarction, and seizures. Further analysis was performed to assess these outcomes for patients treated with ibuprofen, a nonselective COX inhibitor.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>After propensity score matching, 833 patients were identified in each cohort based on celecoxib use. Mortality at 1 year was significantly reduced in patients with sICH receiving celecoxib compared to those who did not (13.33% vs. 17.77%; p = 0.0124). Risks of ventilator dependence, tracheostomy, percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy tube placement, craniotomy, deep venous thrombosis, pulmonary embolism, ischemic stroke, transient ischemia attack, myocardial infarction, and seizures were not significantly increased in patients who received celecoxib within 5 days of sICH compared to those who did not receive celecoxib. There was no significant difference in mortality between patients based on ibuprofen administration.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>There exists a growing interest in using COX-2 as a potential target strategy for neuroprotection in patients with sICH, with some evidence of a mortality benefit in small cohort studies. This study shows that early celecoxib use is associated with decreased mortality in patients with sICH.</p>","PeriodicalId":19118,"journal":{"name":"Neurocritical Care","volume":" ","pages":"788-797"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2024-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140944855","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}