Critical Finding List Item | No. of Programs Listing Critical Finding |
---|---|
Cerebral hemorrhagea | 18 |
Acute stroke | 15 |
Spinal cord compression | 15 |
Brain herniation | 12 |
Spinal instability/spinal fracture | 12 |
Hydrocephalus | 8 |
Arteriovenous malformation/aneurysm | 7 |
Mass/mass effect (new or enlarging) | 7 |
Meningitis/intracranial abscess | 7 |
Brain edema | 6 |
Misplaced hardware | 6 |
Sinus thrombosis | 5 |
Skull depression/open fracture | 5 |
Vascular dissection | 5 |
Anything clinically important | 3 |
Soft-tissue abscess | 3 |
Spinal epidural abscess | 3 |
Spinal ligamentous injury | 3 |
Vascular occlusion | 3 |
Acute sinusitis with osteomyelitis | 2 |
Carotid stenosis | 2 |
Clipped normal vessel | 2 |
Epiglottitis | 2 |
Findings suggestive of child abuse | 2 |
Incompletely clipped aneurysm | 2 |
Intraocular hematoma/orbital injury | 2 |
Retained foreign body | 2 |
Spinal cord infarction | 2 |
Spinal cord mass | 2 |
Spinal epidural hematoma | 2 |
Acute intracranial process | 1 |
Airway compromise | 1 |
Brain death | 1 |
Carotid artery injury | 1 |
Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease | 1 |
Increased intracranial pressure | 1 |
Penetrating trauma | 1 |
Pneumocephalus | 1 |
Shunt malfunction | 1 |
Surgically relevant congenital abnormality | 1 |
↵a Cerebral hemorrhage category includes epidural, subdural, subarachnoid, parenchymal, and intraventricular blood collections as well as active bleeding.