Emergency Management in Neurocritical Care (Neurology in Practice)

Description

Rapid response, assessment and management are crucial for neurocritical situations

Acute neurological illness is traumatic for patients and their families. Physicians caring for these patients are often under great distress and need to rapidly assess the situation to allow appropriate stabilization and management.

Emergency Management in Neurocritical Care gives you the tools you need to perform under pressure in the neurocritical or emergency care unit. The no-nonsense approach corresponds to the attitude needed in both acute emergencies and in the neurocritical care unit. Packed with handy tips to improve your care of patients, and written by internationally renowned experts, the book covers:

• Acute Management of Neurological Emergencies
• Cerebrovascular Critical Care
• Infections of the Nervous System
• Neuromuscular Complications Encountered in the Intensive Care Unit
• Neurological Complications and Consultations in General Intensive Care Units
• Acute Neuroimaging and Neuromonitoring in Neurocritical Care

Clinical in approach, practical in execution, Emergency Management in Neurocritical Care will help you perform better in pressure situations.

Table of Contents

• List of Contributors
• Series Foreword
• Preface

PART I: ACUTE MANAGEMENT OF NEUROLOGICAL EMERGENCIES

• 1. Hypertensive Emergency
  Laurie McWilliams
• 2. Airway Management in the Neurological and Neurosurgical Patient
  Michael J. Souter
• 3. Traumatic Brain Injury and Intracranial Hypertension
  Iain J. McCullagh and Peter J.D. Andrews
• 4. Critical Care Management of Acute Spinal Cord Injury
  Edward M. Manno
• 5. Subarachnoid Hemorrhage
  Muhammad A. Taqi and Michel T. Torbey
• 6. Acute Management of Cerebral Ischemia
  Leonid Groysman and Gene Sung
• 7. Neurocritical Care of Intracerebral Hemorrhage
  James M. Gebel Jr
• 8. Acute Management of Status Epilepticus
  Jan Claassen

PART II: CEREBROVASCULAR CRITICAL CARE

• 9. Post-procedural Management of Patients with Aneurysmal Subarachnoid Hemorrhage
  Tomoko Rie Sampson and Michael N. Diringer
• 10. Care of the Neurointerventional Patient in the Neurointensive Care Unit
  Rishi Gupta
• 11. New Treatment Strategies in the Management of Large Hemispheric Strokes and Intracerebral Hemorrhages
  Edward M. Manno
• 12. Presentation and Management of Acute Cerebral Venous Thrombosis
  Patrýcia Canhao and Jose M. Ferro

PART III: INFECTIONS OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM

• 13. Infections in the Neurocritical Care Unit
  Denise H. Rhoney, Karen J. McAllen, and Dennis Parker
• 14. Diagnosis and Management of Bacterial and Viral Meningitis
  Maxwell S. Damian
• 15. Encephalitis: Presentation and Management
  Ali E. Elsayed and Barnett R. Nathan

PART IV: NEUROMUSCULAR COMPLICATIONS ENCOUNTERED IN THE INTENSIVE CARE UNIT

• 16. Practical Management of Guillain–Barre Syndrome and Myasthenic Crisis
  Alejandro A. Rabinstein

PART V: NEUROLOGICAL COMPLICATIONS AND CONSULTATIONS IN GENERAL INTENSIVE CARE UNITS

• 17. Metabolic Encephalopathies
  Edward M. Manno
• 18. Delirium and Sedation in the ICU
  Jennifer A. Frontera
• 19. Neurologic Complications of Cardiac Surgery
  Cathy Sila
• 20. Neurological Complications of Medical Illness: Critical Illness Neuropathy and Myopathy
  Edward M. Manno
• 21. Hypothermia: Application and Use in Neurocritical Care
  Edward M. Manno
• 22. Etiologies of Posterior Reversible Encephalopathy Syndrome and Forms of Osmotic Demyelination Syndrome
  J. Javier Provencio

PART VI: ACUTE NEUROIMAGING AND NEUROMONITORING IN NEUROCRITICAL CARE

• 23. Application of MR Diffusion, CT Angiography and Perfusion Imaging in Stroke Neurocritical Care
  Carlos Leiva-Salinas, Wade Smith and Max Wintermark
• 24. Advanced Monitoring of Brain Oxygenation and Metabolism
  Bharath R. Naravetla and J. Claude Hemphill III

Index

Author Information

Edward M. Manno, MD, FCCM, FAAN, FAHA, Head, Neurological Intensive Care Unit, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, USA