Neuro Critical Care - Blood pressure and Intracranial Haemorrhage

Join Celia Bradford as she discusses blood pressure control in intracranial haemorrhage in neuro critical care. Intracranial haemorrhage risk factors include hypertension. The question becomes, what do you do with hypertension in the management of intracranial haemorrhage? Does blood pressure being high cause the bleed to be more severe or does a severe bleed cause increased blood pressure? It is a classic chicken or egg scenario. Celia takes you through two prominent trials in the area and gives you valuable and practical tips on how to manage these patients. The INTERACT-1 trial looked at haematoma expansion in two groups randomised to blood pressures of For more like this, head to https://codachange.org/podcasts/