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Tag Hunt-Hess Scale
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William E. Hunt

William Edward Hunt (1921 - 1999) was an American neurologist and neurosurgeon. He is eponymous with the ophthalmologic entity Tolosa-Hunt syndrome, and the Hunt-Hess classification for intracranial haemorrhages.

Hunt-Hess Scale

Description The Hunt-Hess Scale is a graded scale used to predict the rate of mortality based solely on the clinical features seen in a patient presenting with an aneurysmal subarachnoid haemorrhage. Grade Characteristic Mortality Rate1,2 0 Unruptured aneurysm without symptoms…