Emergency Neurological Life Support: Intracerebral Hemorrhage

J Claude Hemphill1, Arthur Lam2

  • 1Department of Neurology, Bldg 1, Room 101, Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital, University of California, 1001 Potrero Avenue, San Franciso, CA, 94110, USA. claude.hemphill@ucsf.edu.

Neurocritical Care
|September 16, 2017
PubMed

Intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH) is a subset of stroke due to spontaneous bleeding within the parenchyma of the brain. It is potentially lethal, and survival depends on ensuring an adequate airway, proper diagnosis, and early management of several specific issues such as blood pressure, coagulopathy reversal, and surgical hematoma evacuation for appropriate patients. ICH was chosen as an Emergency Neurological Life Support (ENLS) protocol because intervention within the first hours may improve outcome, and it is critical to have site-specific protocols to drive care quickly and efficiently.