Eelco Fm Wijdicks, Alejandro A Rabinstein, Sara E Hocker, Jennifer E Fugate

Neurocritical Care

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Part of the "What Do I Do Now?" series, Neurocritical Care provides insight into interventions in acute neurologic disorders. Using a case-based approach, this volume emphasizes how to handle comparatively common clinical problems emergently.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• 2nd edition
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Mai 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 157mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 571g
• ISBN-13: 9780190602659
• ISBN-10: 0190602651
• Artikelnr.: 47864472

Autorenporträt

EELCO F. M. WIJDICKS, MD, PhD, FNCS is a Professor of Neurology, the Chair of Critical Care Neurology, and a consultant in the Neurosciences Intensive Care Unit at the Mayo Clinic Campus, Saint Marys Hospital in Rochester, Minnesota. ALEJANDRO A. RABINSTEIN, MD, FNCS is a Professor of Neurology, in the division of Critical Care Neurology, the Medical Director of the Neurosciences Intensive Care Unit, and a Consultant in the Neurosciences Intensive Care Unit at the Mayo Clinic Campus, Saint Marys Hospital in Rochester, Minnesota. SARA E. HOCKER, MD is an Assistant Professor of Neurology in the Division of Critical Care Neurology, the Director of the Neurocritical Care Fellowship Program, and a Consultant in the Neurosciences Intensive Care Unit at the Mayo Clinic Campus, Saint Marys Hospital in Rochester, Minnesota. JENNIFER E. FUGATE, DO is an Assistant Professor of Neurology in the Division of Critical Care Neurology and a Consultant in the Neurosciences Intensive Care Unit at the Mayo Clinic

Inhaltsangabe

* Section I: Acute Interventions
* 1. Rapid Progression in Lobar Cerebral Hemorrhage
* 2. Cerebral Hemorrhage and High INR
* 3. Traumatic Brain Injury Arriving in the Emergency Department
* 4. Meningitis Not Improving After IV Antibiotics
* 5. Acute Encephalitis and Abnormal MRI
* 6. A Psychotic Break and Seizures
* 7. Acutely Progressive Dyspnea and Limb Weakness
* 8. Swollen Lips After IV Thrombolysis
* 9. When to Retrieve a Clot in Acute Stroke
* 10. Swollen Ischemic Brain and When to Call the Neurosurgeon
* 11. Cerebral Venous Thrombosis Not Responding to Anticoagulation
* 12. The First Week After Aneurysmal Subarachnoid Hemorrhage
* 13. The Neurointerventionalist and Aneurysmal Subarachnoid Hemorrhage
* 14. A Worrisome MRI Of The Spine and Prior Cancer
* 15. Acute Paraplegia After Aortic Surgery
* 16. When Status Epilepticus Becomes Treatment Refractory
* 17. Medical Options in Brain Metastasis
* 18. Hemorrhage Into a Pituitary Tumor
* 19. Brain Edema and Hypertensive Urgency
* 20. Rare Toxicity After Chemotherapy
* 21. Failure To Awaken After Surgery
* 22. Awake and Then Not Awake After Uncomplicated Brain Surgery
* Section II: Monitoring 101
* 23. When a Spot EEG is Not Enough
* 24. When an Intracranial Pressure Monitor is Helpful
* Section III: Calls, Pages, and Other Alarms
* 25. Wild and Agitated After Acute Abdomen
* 26. Rigidity After Experimenting with Drugs
* 27. Sweating, Fever and Hypertension after Traumatic Brain Injury
* 28. Acute Fever and Profound Shock After Ruptured Cerebral Aneurysm
* 29. Coma and Chest X-Ray White-Out After a Fracture
* 30. When Blood Pressure Needs Control After Stroke
* 31. A Common Cardiac Arrhythmia After Stroke
* 32. Hypertension And Bradycardia in Severe Guillain Barré Syndrome
* 33. Myasthenia Gravis Improved but Not Off the Ventilator
* 34. Decreasing Serum Sodium in Aneurysmal Subarachnoid Hemorrhage
* 35. Increasing Serum Sodium After Surgery for Tumor in The Pituitary
Region
* Section IV: Longterm Support, End Of Life Care, and Palliation
* 36. Care of a Persistently Comatose Teenager
* 37. Withdrawal of Care in an Elderly Person with Catastrophic Brain
Injury
* 38. Not Yet Brain Dead
* 39. When to Mention Organ Donation
* Section V: Principles of Prognostication
* 40. What Neurologists Know About Outcome in Traumatic Brain Injury
* 41. What Neurologists Know About Outcome in Post Resuscitation Coma