Emergency Management in Neurocritical Care (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Manno, Edward

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Seitenzahl: 260
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. März 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781118297155
• Artikelnr.: 37349922

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

List of Contributors vi Series Foreword viii Preface ix PART I: ACUTE
MANAGEMENT OF NEUROLOGICAL EMERGENCIES 1 Hypertensive Emergency 3 Laurie
McWilliams 2 Airway Management in the Neurological and Neurosurgical
Patient 12 Michael J. Souter 3 Traumatic Brain Injury and Intracranial
Hypertension 21 Iain J. McCullagh and Peter J.D. Andrews 4 Critical Care
Management of Acute Spinal Cord Injury 32 Edward M. Manno 5 Subarachnoid
Hemorrhage 37 Muhammad A. Taqi and Michel T. Torbey 6 Acute Management of
Cerebral Ischemia 45 Leonid Groysman and Gene Sung 7 Neurocritical Care of
Intracerebral Hemorrhage 55 James M. Gebel Jr 8 Acute Management of Status
Epilepticus 63 Jan Claassen PART II: CEREBROVASCULAR CRITICAL CARE 9
Post-procedural Management of Patients with Aneurysmal Subarachnoid
Hemorrhage 73 Tomoko Rie Sampson and Michael N. Diringer 10 Care of the
Neurointerventional Patient in the Neurointensive Care Unit 84 Rishi Gupta
11 New Treatment Strategies in the Management of Large Hemispheric Strokes
and Intracerebral Hemorrhages 92 Edward M. Manno 12 Presentation and
Management of Acute Cerebral Venous Thrombosis 99 Patr?cia Canhao and Jose
M. Ferro PART III: INFECTIONS OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM 13 Infections in the
Neurocritical Care Unit 111 Denise H. Rhoney, Karen J. McAllen, and Dennis
Parker 14 Diagnosis and Management of Bacterial and Viral Meningitis 123
Maxwell S. Damian 15 Encephalitis: Presentation and Management 132 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 143 Alejandro A. Rabinstein
PART V: NEUROLOGICAL COMPLICATIONS AND CONSULTATIONS IN GENERAL INTENSIVE
CARE UNITS 17 Metabolic Encephalopathies 155 Edward M. Manno 18 Delirium
and Sedation in the ICU 162 Jennifer A. Frontera 19 Neurologic
Complications of Cardiac Surgery 174 Cathy Sila 20 Neurological
Complications of Medical Illness: Critical Illness Neuropathy and Myopathy
182 Edward M. Manno 21 Hypothermia: Application and Use in Neurocritical
Care 188 Edward M. Manno 22 Etiologies of Posterior Reversible
Encephalopathy Syndrome and Forms of Osmotic Demyelination Syndrome 197 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 207 Carlos Leiva-Salinas,
Wade Smith and Max Wintermark 24 Advanced Monitoring of Brain Oxygenation
and Metabolism 214 Bharath R. Naravetla and J. Claude Hemphill III Index
225 The color plate can be found facing page 54.