“…Because of its delayed onset, this complication is often called delayed cerebral ischemia (DCI). 2,4 Besides the term "DCI," many other terms are used in the literature to describe this clinical phenomenon, such as delayed ischemic neurological deficit, [5][6][7] delayed ischemic deficit, 8,9 delayed neurological deficit, 10,11 secondary cerebral ischemia, 12,13 vasospasm, 14,15 clinical vasospasm, 16,17 symptomatic vasospasm, 18,19 symptomatic ischemia, 20 and cerebral infarction. 21 The use of so many different terms is problematic, not only because many studies provide incomplete definitions of the terms used, if at all, 22,23 but also because a variety of definitions are used for the same term.…”