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Correspondence
“Sentinel” or “early warning” bleed
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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 …