Neurocritical

Reference

Guidelines

Summaries of widely used recommendations, written to make the reasoning visible — including where the evidence is thinner than the confident phrasing of a protocol suggests.

Read this first. These are condensed summaries for revision, not the guidelines themselves. Recommendations are revised, and this page will lag behind the source documents. Always work from the current published version and your own unit’s protocol.

  1. Severe traumatic brain injury

    Based on the Brain Trauma Foundation's Guidelines for the Management of Severe Traumatic Brain Injury.

  2. Aneurysmal subarachnoid haemorrhage

    Drawing on American Heart Association / American Stroke Association and Neurocritical Care Society guidance.

  3. Acute ischaemic stroke

    Thrombolysis and thrombectomy windows, blood pressure targets, and when decompression is considered.

  4. Status epilepticus

    Neurocritical Care Society guidance.

  5. Brain death determination

    Criteria are jurisdiction-specific and the local legal framework governs.

  6. Reading a recommendation critically

    Three questions worth asking of any guideline statement: