Clinically important steps required for SAH management ( from its onset )
- Most commonly due to ruptured saccular (berry) aneurysm
- Severe & sudden onset of headache different from previous headache pattern or described as "worst headache of my life"
- Nausea, vomiting, brief loss of consciousness, focal neurologic deficits, or meningismus
- Noncontrast head CT >90% sensitive within 2-6 hr of SAH onset
- Lumbar puncture required to exclude SAH definitively in patients with negative CT scan of the head
- Xanthochromia confirms diagnosis (usually >6 hr from SAH onset)
- Cerebral angiography to identify bleeding source
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