The Difference Between Life and Death in Hematoma Expansion in an Emergency Room

The amount of hematoma expansion in an iCH is the difference between life and death. A third of these patients are going to have 30 percent of their hematomas expand in the first three hours so what does this mean? It means that your opportunity to impact their longitudinal functional outcomes is tremendous in an emergency room. If you're suspecting a stroke get that CTA  that's going to give you the ability to identify which patients are at an even higher risk of Hematoma expansion.