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“Sentinel” or “early warning” bleed
  1. N H Horwitz

https://doi.org/10.1136/jnnp.74.2.284

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    I am writing to take issue with Richard Davenport’s prejorative objection to the term “sentinel” or “early warning” bleed in patients found subsequently to have had a subarachnoid haemorrhage.1 His dismissive comment that the term was “coined by an Edinburgh neurosurgeon” is particularly offensive. The neurosurgeon in question was no journeyman but in fact was Professor F John Gillingham, an internationally esteemed vascular neurosurgeon, the protege and successor of the legendary Mr Norman Dott.

    In a 1953 address to the Harvey Cushing Society (predecessor of the …

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