Dr. Michael Veldeman (1) joins JNIS Editor-in-Chief, Dr. Felipe C. Albuquerque, to discuss the study, "Intra-arterial nimodipine for the treatment of refractory delayed cerebral ischemia after aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage". Dr. Veldeman explains the methods of the study, the growing significance of computerised tomography perfusion imaging in diagnosis of unconscious patients, the use of induced hypertension, and interventional complications that arose when treating subarachnoid hemorrhage patients.

Read the paper: https://jnis.bmj.com/content/early/2023/12/16/jnis-2023-021151 

(1) Department of Neurosurgery, RWTH Aachen University Hospital Aachen, Aachen, Germany

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