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Comment
. 2009;13(4):166.
doi: 10.1186/cc7929. Epub 2009 Jul 15.

Can a simple blood test quantify brain injury?

Stephan A Mayer  1 , Guillermo Linares
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Can a simple blood test quantify brain injury?

Stephan A Mayer et al. Crit Care. 2009.

Abstract

Despite significant advances in neurocritical care, it remains difficult to precisely measure the extent of neurological injury in patients affected by stroke, trauma, or cardiac arrest. In the intensive care unit the extent of primary and secondary injury often eludes clinicians, making prognostication imprecise and difficult. Derwall and colleagues present their findings on the dynamics of serum S-100B protein levels in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest survivors. Their study suggests that elevation of S-100B reflects the severity of the primary hypoxic-ischemic insult.

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