Handbook of Neurocritical Care

• General Principles of Neurocritical Care.- Establishing and Organizing a Neuroscience Critical Care Unit.- Electrolyte and Metabolic Derangements.- Fever and Infections.- Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism: Physiology and Monitoring.- Multimodality Monitoring in Acute Brain Injury.- Cerebral Edema and Intracranial Hypertension.- Cardiac Dysfunction, Monitoring, and Management.- Airway Management and Mechanical Ventilation in the NCCCU.- Blood Pressure Management.- Nutrition in Neurocritical Care.- Sedation, Analgesia, and Neuromuscular Paralysis.- Postoperative Care.- Care Following Neurointerventional Procedures.- Ethical Issues and Withdrawal of Life-Sustaining Therapies.- Collaborative Nursing Practice in the Neurosciences Critical Care Unit.- Specific Problems in Neurocritical Care.- Coma and Disorders of Consciousness.- Acute Encephalopathy.- Traumatic Brain Injury.- Acute Myelopathy.- Ischemic Stroke.- Intracerebral Hemorrhage.- Intraventricular Hemorrhage.- Subarachnoid Hemorrhage.- Brain Injury Following Cardiac Arrest.- Meningitis and Encephalitis.- Cerebral Venous Sinus Thrombosis.- Neuroleptic Malignant Syndrome, Malignant Hyperthermia, and Serotonin Syndrome.- Brain Tumors.- Hydrocephalus.- Neuromuscular Disorders.- Status Epilepticus.- Deep Venous Thrombosis and Pulmonary Embolism.- Neurocritical Illness During Pregnancy and Puerperium.- Brain Death and Organ Donation.

From the reviews of the second edition: "This is the second edition of an outline for care of patients with acute neurological illness. ... Trainees in neuroscience and critical care as well as other caregivers are an appropriate audience for this work originating from leading neuroscience programs in the U.S. ... an effective update from the first edition. References and content have been expanded and revised. The obvious strength is the clear presentation of neurological issues ... ." (David J. Dries, Doody's Review Service, June, 2011)