Salia Farrokh returns to highlight landmark nimodipine articles in our Trial of the Week series.

So lucky to have Friend of the Pod, Salia Farrokh, PharmD, BCCCP, FNCS, returning to highlight two nimodipine studies in our Trial of the Week. We discuss “Cerebral Arterial Spasm – A Controlled Trial of Nimodipine in Patients with Subarachnoid Hemorrhage” published in NEJM in 1983 and “Effect of Oral Nimodipine on Cerebral Infarction and Outcome after Subarachnoid Hemorrhage: British Aneurysm Nimodipine Trial” published in 1989 in BMJ.

We review aSAH treatments in the 1970’s and 1980’s and what evidence existed for nimodipine use before highlighting our two trials of the week. How does the study methodology compare from then to now? Where did our nimodipine dosing regimen come from? Is the term cerebral artery vasospasm out of date? Is it still appropriate to use evidence from the 1980’s in the 2020’s? Is there more to research with respect to nimodipine? What to do with missed nimodipine doses? We do a deep dive into all things nimodipine for aSAH discussing the above and much more.

Looking for more on aSAH? Look no further, because Casey May has gone in depth on aSAH management in two separate episodes. Part I and Part II available now!