Decorticate posturing — a sign of severe damage to the brain — is a specific type of involuntary abnormal posturing of a person. Decorticate posture is stiff with legs held out straight, fists ...

Reversible decerebrate and decorticate postures ordinarily indicate advanced and irreversible disease of the brain, but in three patients these postures were a presenting feature of hepatic coma, and ...

Although widely used to detect elevated intracranial pressure (ICP) in primary brain injury, noninvasive tests are not accurate and relying on them may mean many patients with this life-threatening ...

(HealthDay)—Physical examination signs are not sufficiently sensitive for detecting elevated intracranial pressure (ICP) in critically ill adults, according to a review published online July 24 in the ...

John P. Conomy, M.D., and Michael Swash, M.B., B.S. Reversible decerebrate and decorticate postures ordinarily indicate advanced and irreversible disease of the brain, but in three patients these ...