Main description:

An authoritative and comprehensive review of the most important clinical issues facing critically ill neurologic and neurosurgical patients. The authors provide pertinent basic, clinical, diagnostic, and management guidelines for all the conditions commonly encountered in the neurocritical care unit, including the management of autonomic disorders that require critical care, postoperative management, and endovascular treatment. The authors also discuss the latest developments in the monitoring of different body systems, emphasizing the management of cardiorespiratory complications and other medical conditions that may threaten the patient's life. Also detailed are the concepts of intracranial physiology and current neuromonitoring techniques, subjects whose understanding is basic to effective management of critically ill neurologic patients. Numerous tables, figures, diagrams, and radiographs simplify and explicate both the diagnostic and therapeutic processes.

Contents:

Introduction
Jose I. Suarez

Organization of a Neuroscience Critical Care Unit: Historical Perspectives and Vision for the Future
Chere Monique Chase and John A. Ulatowski

Cerebral Blood Flow Physiology and Monitoring
Michel T. Torbey and Anish Bhardwaj

Cerebral Metabolism: Implications for Neurocritically Ill Patients
Maria Briones-Galang and Claudia Robertson

Cerebral Edema and Intracranial Dynamics: Monitoring and Management of Intracranial Pressure
Matthew Eccher and Jose I. Suarez

Neurologic and Systemic Monitoring in the NSU
Daniel W. Miller and Jose I. Suarez

Neuroimaging in Neuroemergencies
Jeffrey L. Sunshine and Robert W. Tarr

Cardiac Monitoring in the Neurosciences Critical Care Unit
Dinesh Arab, Jawad F. Kirmani, Andrew R. Xavier, Abutaher M. Yahia, Jose I. Suarez, and Adnan I. Qureshi

Ventilatory Management in the Neurosciences Critical Care Unit
David L. McDonagh and Cecil O. Borel

Treatment of Autonomic Disorders Requiring Intensive Care Management
Marek Buczek, Jose I. Suarez, and Thomas C. Chelimsky

Management of Medical Complications in the Neurosciences Critical Care Unit
Jose L. Diaz, Marcela Granados, and Jose I. Suarez

Sedation and Analgesia in the Critically Ill Neurology and Neurosurgery Patient
Mitzi K. Hemstreet, Jose I. Suarez, and Marek A. Mirski

Blood Pressure Management in the Neurocritical Care Patient
Wendy C. Ziai and Marek A. Mirski

Nutrition and Diet Therapy in the Neurosciences Critical Care Unit
Nancy A. Newman

Bioethical Issues in the Neurosciences Critical Care Unit
Jose I. Suarez and Stuart Youngner

Coma and Brain Death
Alexandros L. Georgiadis, Romergryko Geocadin, Jose I. Suarez, and Osama O. Zaidat

Endovascular Therapy and Neurosciences Critical Care
Jawad F. Kirmani, Ricardo A. Hanel, Andrew R. Xavier, Abutaher M. Yahia, and Adnan I. Qureshi

NeurointensiveCare of the Acute Ischemic Stroke Patient
Neeraj Badjatia, Thanh N. Nguyen, and Walter J. Koroshetz

Management of Nontraumatic Intracerebral Hemorrhage
Eliahu S. Feen, Aleksandyr W. Lavery, and Jose I. Suarez

Subarachnoid Hemorrhage
Nicholas C. Bambakidis and Warren R. Selman

Cerebral Venous Sinus Thrombosis
Zeyad Marcos and Sophia Sundararajan

Traumatic Head Injury
Sandra Kuniyoshi and Jose I. Suarez

Spinal Cord Injury and Related Diseases
Joy Derwenskus and Osama O. Zaidat

Postoperative Management in the Neurosciences Critical Care Unit
Tina Rodrigue and Warren R. Selman

Status Epilepticus
Dakshin Gullapalli and Thomas P. Bleck

Myasthenic Crisis
Nazli Janjua and Stephan A. Mayer

Critical Care of Guillain-Barre Syndrome
Michel T. Torbey and J. Ricardo Carhuapoma

Less Common Causes of Quadriparesis and Respiratory Failure
Michel T. Torbey, Jose I. Suarez, and Romergryko Geocadin

Infections of the Central Nervous System
Ronald G. Riechers, II, Abel D. Jarell, and Geoffrey S. F. Ling

Neuro-Ophthalmologic Evaluation of the ICU Patient
Eroboghene E. Ubogu and R. John Leigh

Management of the Patient With Mitochondrial Disease in the Neurosciences Critical Care Unit
Julio A. Chalela

Neurocritical Care During Pregnancy and Puerperium
Panayiotis N. Varelas and Lotfi Hacein-Bey

Nursing Care in the Neurosciences Critical Care Unit
Janice L. Hickman

Outcomes of Neurosciences Critical Care
Gene Sung

Appendices

Index