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ArticleTherapeutic advances in neurological disorders2023

International beliefs and head positioning practices in patients with spontaneous hyperacute intracerebral hemorrhage.

Wendy Dusenbury, Marc D Malkoff, Peter D Schellinger, Martin Köhrmann, Adam S Arthur, Lucas Elijovich, Andrei V Alexandrov, Georgios Tsivgoulis, Anne W Alexandrov

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Article in Therapeutic advances in neurological disorders, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors at 3 institutions in 3 countries.

Wendy DusenburyUniversity of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN 38163, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4457-4818
Marc D MalkoffUniversity of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN, USA.
Peter D SchellingerJohn Wesling Medical Center Minden, Ruhr University Bochum, Minden, Germany.
Martin KöhrmannUniversity Dulsury-Essen, Essen, Germany.
Adam S ArthurUniversity of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN, USA.
Lucas ElijovichUniversity of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN, USA.
Andrei V AlexandrovUniversity of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8871-1023
Georgios TsivgoulisNational and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0640-3797
Anne W AlexandrovUniversity of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN, USA.
University of Tennessee Health Science Center · USUniversity of Arizona · USJohannes Wesling Klinikum Minden · DE

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Background: Prior to the conduct of the Head Position in Stroke Trial (HeadPoST), an international survey ( Objectives: We aimed to determine whether equipoise exists for head position in spontaneous hyperacute intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH) patients following HeadPoST. Design: This is an international, web-distributed survey focused on head positioning in hyperacute ICH patients. Methods: A survey was constructed to examine clinicians' beliefs and practices associated with head positioning of hyperacute ICH patients. Survey items were developed with content experts, piloted, and then refined before distributing through stroke listservs, social media, and purposive snowball sampling. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics and χ Results: We received 181 responses representing 13 countries on four continents: 38% advanced practice providers, 32% bedside nurses, and 30% physicians; overall, participants had median 7 [interquartile range (IQR) = 3-12] years stroke experience with a median of 100 (IQR = 37.5-200) ICH admissions managed annually. Participants disagreed that HeadPoST provided 'definitive evidence' for head position in ICH and agreed that their 'written admission orders include 30-degree head positioning', with 54% citing hospital policies for this head position in hyperacute ICH. Participants were unsure whether head positioning alone could influence ICH longitudinal outcomes. Use of serial proximal clinical and technology measures during the head positioning intervention were identified by 82% as the most appropriate endpoints for future ICH head positioning trials. Conclusion: Interdisciplinary providers remain unconvinced by HeadPoST results that head position does not matter in hyperacute ICH. Future trials examining the proximal effects of head positioning on clinical stability in hyperacute ICH are warranted.

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head of bed positionintracerebral hemorrhageintracranial pressure

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PMID36993938
PMCPMC10041589
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