Main description:

In Neurotrauma and Critical Care of the Brain, leading clinicians present widely accepted guidelines and evidence-based practices for the management of patients with traumatic brain injury. Divided into five main sections, the book guides the clinician through the science, management, critical care, outcomes, and important socioeconomic issues relevant to patient care.

Special Features:

• Offers the valuable team approach and recommendations
  of renowned surgeons, clinicians, rehabilitation specialists, and researchers
  
  
• Includes guidelines for injuries ranging from mild to
  moderate, severe, and penetrating, and for treating brain injury in children
  
  
• Covers the related intensive care issues of
  neurologic, pulmonary, cardiovascular, and infection management and nutrition
  and fluid control
  
  
• Reviews fundamental science concepts, including
  pathophysiology, monitoring and imaging, biomarkers and classification systems
  for brain injury
  
  
• Provides hundreds of concise summary tables and
  illustrations to help digest complex information
  
  
• Discusses ethics and important end-of-life issues

With an integrated management approach to injury and rehabilitation that goes well beyond initial surgery, Neurotrauma and Critical Care of the Brain will enable neurosurgeons, neurologists, physicians in trauma, critical care, and rehabilitation medicine, and residents in these specialties to optimize patient care and outcomes. It is also useful as a guide for board exam preparation.

The companion volume to this book is Neurotrauma and Critical Care of the Spine.