Neurological and Neurosurgical Intensive Care offers practical, state of the art guidelines for managing the wide range of problems arising in postoperative neurosurgical care and care of patients with acute neurological diseases.

Contents

General Principles of Neurological Intensive Care

1. Introduction to Critical Care in Neurology and Neurosurgery
2. Intracranial Physiology and Elevated Intracranial Pressure
3. Management of Intracranial Hypertension and Mass Effect
4. Pulmonary Aspects of Neurological Intensive Care
5. Cardiovascular Aspects of Neurological Intensive Care
6. Fluid and Metabolic Derangements
7. Fever and Infections in the Neurological Intensive Care Unit
8. Electrophysiologic Monitoring in the Neurological Intensive Care Unit
9. Persistant Vegetative State and Brain Death

Specific Problems in Neurological Intensive Care

10. Postoperative Neurosurgical Care
11. Neurological Complications of Critical Medical Illnesses
12. Head Injury
13. Critical Care of Acute Stroke
14. Management of Nontraumatic Brain Hemorrhage
15. Subarachnoid Hemorrhage
16. Intensive and Postoperative Care of Intracranial Tumors
17. Hypoxic-Ischemic Celebral Injury
18. Critical Care of Guillain-Barre Syndrome
19. Treatment of the Critically Ill Patient with Myasthenia Gravis
20. Staus Epilepticus
21. Viral Encephalitis and Bacterial Meningitis
22. Spinal Cord Injury
23. Ethical and Legal Aspects Applicable to the Neurological Intensive Care Unit

Index

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