Abstracts Archive

This study aimed to explore the perceptions and recommendations of key stakeholders (family members, patients, clinicians and healthcare managers) regarding the development and implementation of care partnerships with families in Neurological Intensive Care Units.

In a neuroscience intensive care unit, high-frequency continuous data acquisition (CDA) successfully captured a critical bradycardia episode in a patient with intracerebral hemorrhage that standard 1-minute averaged monitoring failed to record. This case demonstrates CDA's potential to improve neuro...

Test your pupil assessing ability in this interactive workshop! Automated pupillometry is a non-invasive, accurate way to assess the pupil light response. Participants will learn about this new technology and have the opportunity to assess pupils using penlights and NeuroLight pupillometers and comp...

Aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage is a neurological emergency that requires rapid diagnosis and coordinated care. This session provides a brief overview of the evolution of diagnosis and treatment and highlights how these advances inform current nursing practice, with a focus on assessment, early r...

This prospective observational pilot study uses GoPro cameras to quantify how Neuroscience ICU nurses allocate time between direct patient care, documentation, and other activities during the first 6-hour observations of acute ischemic stroke care following thrombolytic and/or endovascular therapy. ...

Neuroprognostication is a multimodal process that integrates various pieces of clinical data to estimate neurologic recovery following acute brain injury. Blood-based biomarkers have emerged as promising adjuncts to enhance prognostic accuracy. This presentation reviews commonly studied blood-based ...

This study examined whether pupillary light reflex (PLR), measured with an automated pupillometer, predicts procedural pain in critically ill sedated traumatic brain injury patients. Pre-procedure PLR measurements were robust predictors of Critical-Care Pain Observation Tool scores during subsequent...