Neurocritical Care for Neurosurgeons

This unique book discusses the management of neurocritical care patients, including basic concepts,pathophysiologic principles, monitoring,treatment indications, and factors that affect outcomes in patients requiring neurocritical care assistance. It addresses the need to improvecontinuing education in this area,highlighting patient care in theperioperative period.This is thefirst book toprovide a simplified overview forneurosurgeons and neurologists to understand the neurocriticalpatient journey. It is divided into three parts: the first covers the basics concepts, from monitoring to the interpretation of exams; the second explores general management of specific situations encountered in intensive care and the last partincludes prognostic and rehabilitation models, as well as new perspectives. Thanks to the accessible, neurosurgical specific language, the book is well suited for all professionals involvedin neurocritical care, includingstudents, but is also a valuable resource for residents and researches, as well as experienced neurosurgeons or neurologists looking for updated information and guidelines.