Subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) is a disease commonly caused by aneurysmal rupture that is still associated with high morbidity and mortality despite recent advances in management. Various approaches have been posited and used to predict outcome of this condition but remain poor to this day.
While it is known that age and initial clinical severity can help predict outcomes in this condition to some degree, prognostication is far from optimal. However, this task is extremely important since clinicians, patients, and families often struggle with determining how an SAH patient’s life conditions will evolve long-term in terms of his/her functional outcome, cognitive performance, and quality of life. For example, research suggests that additional modalities such as magnetic resonance imaging and electroencephalography may also assist in predicting outcomes. One specific area that has not been well-addressed with respect to prognostication in SAH are the cognitive outcomes experienced by survivors of this condition (by contrast, there is much more literature with respect to functional outcome in SAH).
Through this collection, Topic Editors would like to encourage the submission of articles that describe evidence-based ways of prognosticating SAH outcomes. Thus, they will welcome any types of manuscripts - research article, brief research article, review, mini-review, and case reports - about, but not limited to, the following themes:
• Ways of predicting SAH outcomes
• Case series/reports that include use of a unique way of predicting outcome in SAH
• Non-invasive modalities such as imaging and/or electroencephalography to predict SAH outcomes
• Prediction of cognitive outcomes and/or quality of life after SAH
Subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) is a disease commonly caused by aneurysmal rupture that is still associated with high morbidity and mortality despite recent advances in management. Various approaches have been posited and used to predict outcome of this condition but remain poor to this day.
While it is known that age and initial clinical severity can help predict outcomes in this condition to some degree, prognostication is far from optimal. However, this task is extremely important since clinicians, patients, and families often struggle with determining how an SAH patient’s life conditions will evolve long-term in terms of his/her functional outcome, cognitive performance, and quality of life. For example, research suggests that additional modalities such as magnetic resonance imaging and electroencephalography may also assist in predicting outcomes. One specific area that has not been well-addressed with respect to prognostication in SAH are the cognitive outcomes experienced by survivors of this condition (by contrast, there is much more literature with respect to functional outcome in SAH).
Through this collection, Topic Editors would like to encourage the submission of articles that describe evidence-based ways of prognosticating SAH outcomes. Thus, they will welcome any types of manuscripts - research article, brief research article, review, mini-review, and case reports - about, but not limited to, the following themes:
• Ways of predicting SAH outcomes
• Case series/reports that include use of a unique way of predicting outcome in SAH
• Non-invasive modalities such as imaging and/or electroencephalography to predict SAH outcomes
• Prediction of cognitive outcomes and/or quality of life after SAH