The Brain of the Critically Ill Pregnant Woman (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Perez-Fernandez MD, Javier; Hidalgo MD, Macp; Montufar MD, Carlos

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The Brain of the Critically Ill Pregnant Woman is a volume in the Critical Care in Obstetrics series. This novel reference educates physicians, nurses, and all allied healthcare personnel on updates for caring for pregnant women with neurological compromise. The book's authors have gathered the best evidence-based material that is explicitly focused on severe neurological complications in pregnant patients and postpartum. Among the chapters, the book covers medical-surgical complications that any patient can present, such as head trauma and complications specific to pregnancy.

• Includes obstetric concepts with updated knowledge of pathophysiology
• Offers best practice approaches and interventions regarding the fetus
• Explores the use and effects of drugs in the pregnant patient and during nursing
• Written by authors with extensive clinical experience in neurocritical care and critical obstetric care

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Elsevier Science & Techn.
• Seitenzahl: 460
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. November 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780443152047
• Artikelnr.: 69552332

Inhaltsangabe

SECTION 1 Critical care
1. Neurologic complications in the obstetric patient
SECTION 2 Neurologic monitorings
2. Intracranial pressure monitoring and pregnancy
3. Monitoring of cerebral oxygenation
4. Neuromonitoring in critically ill pregnant patients
5. Multinodal neuromonitoring
SECTION 3 Imaging
6. Computed tomography findings in critical neurological conditions in the
obstetric patient
7. Cerebral angiography and neurovascular intervention: General
considerations specific to cerebral angiography and neurovascular
intervention in pregnant patients
8. Transcranial Doppler in pregnancy
SECTION 4 Encephalopathy
9. Hepatic encephalopathy during pregnancy
10. Wernicke encephalopathy
SECTION 5 Vascular disease
11. Acute ischemic stroke
12. General approach to neurocritical care in obstetrics: The brain of the
critically ill pregnant woman
13. Thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura
14. Venous sinus thrombosis and pregnancy
SECTION 6 Neurological disease
15. Headache in pregnancy
16. Coma and brain death in pregnancy
17. Eclampsia
18. Central nervous system infections in pregnancy
SECTION 7 Weakness syndromes
19. Myasthenia gravis and pregnancy
20. Multiple sclerosis and pregnancy
21. Guillain-Barré syndrome in pregnancy
SECTION 8 Trauma
22. Traumatic brain injury in critically ill pregnant women
23. Spinal trauma
SECTION 9 Neurosurgery in pregnant woman
24. Intracranial surgery
SECTION 10 Brain implications in cardiac arrest
25. Cerebral resuscitation from cardiac arrest
SECTION 11 The fetus
26. Fetal surveillance in the neurocritical pregnant patient
SECTION 12 Airway and mechanical ventilation
27. Mechanical ventilation in the brain-injured pregnant woman
28. Remote neurocritical monitoring of the critically ill pregnant patient
29. Highly infectious central nervous system infections