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Written with a conversational tone and using a case-based approach, Neurocritical Care is a primer for physicians seeing patients in the neurointensive care unit, with a specific focus on interventions in acute neurologic disorders. An easy read for new physicians, residents, and medical students, it provides practical advice from the authors' seasoned experiences.
Sommario
- SECTION 1: ACUTE INTERVENTIONS
- 1.EXPANDING LOBAR CEREBRAL HEMORRHAGE
- 2. REVERSING AND RESTARTING ANTICOAGULATION IN CEREBRAL HEMORRHAGE
- 3. THE VERY FIRST PRIORITIES IN TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY
- 4. ACUTE SUBDURAL HEMATOMA WITH A TAXING POST OPERATIVE COURSE
- 5. CRANIECTOMY'S TRIAD OF COMPLICATIONS
- 6. GRAPPLING WITH ACUTE BACTERIAL MENINGITIS
- 7. SORTING OUT AND TREATING ACUTE ENCEPHALITIS
- 8. THE PRESENTING FEATURES OF AUTOIMMUNE ENCEPHALITIS
- 9. ESCALATING DYSPNEA IN ACUTE NEUROMUSCULAR DISEASE
- 10. LIFE-THREATENING COMPLICATIONS OF INTRAVENOUS THROMBOLYSIS
- 11. WHEN TO RETRIEVE A CLOT IN ACUTE STROKE
- 12. "WAKE UP"' MAJOR STROKE
- 13. RECOGNIZING AN ACUTE EMBOLUS TO THE BASILAR ARTERY
- 14.TIMING OF HEMICRANIECTOMY IN SWOLLEN ISCHEMIC STROKE
- 15. WORSENING CEREBRAL VENOUS THROMBOSIS DESPITE ANTICOAGULATION
- 16. ANEURYSMAL SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE: FROM GOOD TO BAD GRADE
- 17. DELAYED CEREBRAL VASOSPASM IN ANEURYSMAL SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE
- 18. NONANEURYSMAL SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE TURNING ANEURYSMAL
- 19. OPTIONS IN ACUTE SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION DUE TO CANCER
- 20. UNANTICIPATED PARAPLEGIA AFTER AORTIC REPAIR
- 21. WHEN STATUS EPILEPTICUS CANNOT BE CONTROLLED
- 22. WHEN BRAIN METASTASIS BECOME A NEUROCRITICAL EMERGENCY
- 23. THE SURGICAL URGENCY WITH PITUITARY APOPLEXY
- 24. ECLAMPSIA AND ITS NEUROLOGIC CONSEQUENCES
- 25. TARGETED TEMPERATURE MANAGEMENT AFTER CARDIOPULMONARY RESUSCITATION
- 26. SURVIVING CARDIAC ARREST BUT DISABLING TWITCHES
- 27. HYPERTENSIVE EMERGENCY AND BRAIN EDEMA
- 28. THE ELUSIVE RAPID PROGRESSIVE BRAIN DISEASE
- 29. IMMUNE CHECKPOINT INHIBITOR AND NEUROMUSCULAR DISEASE
- 30. NEUROTOXICITY OF CAR-T CELL THERAPY
- 31. FAILURE TO AWAKEN AFTER SURGERY
- 32. STUPOR AFTER BRAIN SURGERY
- 33. WHEN ANTIEPILEPTIC DRUGS MAY CAUSE HARM
- 34. INTRACRANIAL HEMORRHAGE AND LVAD
- SECTION 2: THE BASICS OF BRAIN MONITORING
- 35. THE CHOICE BETWEEN SPOT AND CONTINUOUS ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY
- 36. WHEN TO PLACE AN INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE MONITOR
- SECTION 3: CALLS, PAGES, AND OTHER ALARMS
- 37. ALERT WITH A FIXED AND DILATED PUPIL
- 38. SORTING THROUGH DELIRIUM
- 39. ANTIBIOTIC-ASSOCIATED TOXIC ENCEPHALOPATHY IN SEPSIS
- 40. ALCOHOL WITHDRAWAL WITH EXTREME AGITATION
- 41. ALCOHOL RELATED ACUTE NEUROLOGIC COMPLICATIONS
- 42. SUDDEN HYPOTENSION AND FEVER SPIKE
- 43. WHEN BLOOD PRESSURE IS TOO HIGH
- 44. ACUTE WHITE-OUT ON CHEST X-RAY
- 45. STORMING WITH SWEATING, FEVER, AND RIGID POSTURING
- 46. THE COMMON CARDIAC ARRHYTMIAS
- 47. DYSAUTONOMIA IN GUILLAIN-BARRÉ SYNDROME
- 48. DIFFICULT VENTILATOR WEANING IN MYASTHENIA GRAVIS
- 49. DECREASING SERUM SODIUM
- 50. INCREASING SERUM SODIUM
- 51. RISING AMMONIA IN LIVER CIRRHOSIS
- SECTION 4: PRINCIPLES OF PROGNOSTICATION
- 52. PROGNOSTICATION AFTER SEVERE TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY
- 53. PROGNOSTICATION AFTER ACUTE ISCHEMIC STROKE AND CEREBRAL HEMORRHAGE
- 54. PROGNOSTICATION AFTER CARDIOPULMONARY RESUSCITATION
- SECTION 5: LONG-TERM SUPPORT, END OF LIFE CARE, AND PALLIATION
- 55. DECISIONS IN PERSISTENT COMATOSE STATES
- 56. WHEN WITHDRAWAL OF LIFE-SUSTAINING TREATMENT IS CONSIDERED
- 57. BRAIN DEATH DETERMINATION: SLIP -UPS AND OTHER MISREADINGS
- 58. WHEN TO MENTION ORGAN DONATION
- SECTION 6: THE OTHER SIDE OF NEUROCRITICAL CARE: COMMUNICATION CONUNDRUMS
- 59. PATIENTS COMING IN AND GOING OUT
- 60. WHEN FAMILIES DO NOT AGREE WITH OUR APPROACH AND CARE
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Eelco F. M. Wijdicks, MD, PhD, FACP, FNCS is Professor of Neurology at Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science and Consultant in the Neurosciences Intensive Care Unit at the Mayo Clinic Hospital, Saint Marys Campus, Rochester, Minnesota.
Alejandro A. Rabinstein, MD, FAHA, FNCS, is Professor of Neurology at Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science, Consultant in the Neurosciences Intensive Care Unit, and Chair of the Division of Neurocritical Care and Hospital Neurology at Mayo Clinic Hospital, Saint Marys Campus, Rochester, Minnesota.
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Written with a conversational tone and using a case-based approach, Neurocritical Care is a primer for physicians seeing patients in the neurointensive care unit, with a specific focus on interventions in acute neurologic disorders. An easy read for new physicians, residents, and medical students, it provides practical advice from the authors' seasoned experiences.
