hunt_hess_classification

Retrieves the Hunt and Hess Grade for patients with subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH). This classification system correlates the severity of clinical presentation with surgical risk and mortality.

Collection of indices and tools relating to clinical research that aid epidemiological cohort or retrospective chart review with big data. All indices and tools take commonly used lab values, patient demographics, and clinical measurements to compute various risk and predictive values for survival or further classification/stratification. References to original literature and validation contained in each function documentation. Includes all commonly available calculators available online.

Neel Agarwal

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Clinical Indices and Outcomes Tools

hunt_hess_classification function

<dl> <dt>clinical_findings</dt>
<dd>Numeric (1-5). Select the grade corresponding to the patient's clinical status:
1: Asymptomatic, mild headache, or slight nuchal rigidity.
2: Moderate/severe headache, nuchal rigidity, no deficit (except CN palsy).
3: Drowsy, confused, or mild focal deficit.
4: Stupor, moderate-severe hemiparesis, early decerebrate rigidity.
5: Deep coma, decerebrate rigidity, moribund.</dd></dl>

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Hunt and Hess Classification for Subarachnoid Hemorrhage — hunt_hess_classification

<dl>

 <dt>clinical_findings</dt>
<dd>Numeric (1-5). Select the grade corresponding to the patient's clinical status:
1: Asymptomatic, mild headache, or slight nuchal rigidity.
2: Moderate/severe headache, nuchal rigidity, no deficit (except CN palsy).
3: Drowsy, confused, or mild focal deficit.
4: Stupor, moderate-severe hemiparesis, early decerebrate rigidity.
5: Deep coma, decerebrate rigidity, moribund.</dd>

</dl>

hunt_hess_classification: Hunt and Hess Classification for Subarachnoid Hemorrhage

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