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ReviewNeurocritical care2025

Low-Cost Strategies for the Development of Neurocritical Care in Resource-Limited Settings.

Gentle Sunder Shrestha, Gaurav Nepal, Sérgio Brasil

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Review in Neurocritical care, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Gentle Sunder ShresthaDepartment of Critical Care Medicine, Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital, Maharajgunj, Kathmandu, Nepal. gentlesunder@hotmail.com.ORCID 0000-0003-0385-2340
Gaurav NepalDepartment of Neurology, University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center and Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA.
Sérgio BrasilDivision of Neurosurgery, Department of Neurology, University of São Paulo Medical School, São Paulo, Brazil.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This review explores low-cost neurocritical care interventions for resource-limited settings, including economical devices, innovative care models, and disease-specific strategies. Devices like inexpensive ventilators, wearable technology, smartphone-based ultrasound, brain4care, transcranial Doppler, and smartphone pupillometry offer effective diagnostic and monitoring capabilities. Initiatives such as intermediate care units, minimally equipped stroke units, and tele-neurocritical care have demonstrated benefits by reducing hospital stays, preventing complications, and improving clinical and economic outcomes. The review emphasizes locally applicable tailored approaches for diagnosing and managing conditions such as traumatic brain injury, neuroinfections, status epilepticus, autoimmune neurological disorders, and acute stroke as viable and affordable solutions.

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Critical CareNervous System DiseasesDeveloping CountriesHumansResource-Limited SettingsTelemedicineLow-cost strategiesNeurocritical careResource-limited settings

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