Decision making in neurocritical care
By: [edited by] Jennifer Frontera.
Contributors: Frontera, Jennifer.
Publisher: Georg Thieme Verlag; Thieme Medical Publishers
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Stuttgart; New York; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 340
ISBN-13: 9781604060478
Subjects: Neurological intensive care -- Decision making; Nervous System Diseases -- diagnosis; Nervous System Diseases -- therapy; Critical Care -- methods; Trauma, Nervous System -- diagnosis; Trauma, Nervous System -- therapy
Description: From important aspects of the physical examination to imaging studies to treatment options and dosage guidelines, this book provides a solid introduction to the evidence-based management of patients in the neurological intensive care unit. Succinct text in a highly accessible bullet-point format details the essentials of history-taking, physical examination, differential diagnosis, diagnostic evaluation, and treatments for a range of neurological problems in the critical care setting.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Subarachnoid hemorrhage / Harshpal Singh, Jennifer A. Frontera, and Joshua B. Bederson; title: Traumatic brain injury / Chad Miller; title: Intracerebral hemorrhage / Stanley Tuhrim; title: Antiplatelet and anticoagulation associated intracranial hemorrhage / Fred Rincon, Andres Fernandez, and Stephan Mayer; title: Status epilepticus / Jan Claassen and Lawrence J. Hirsch; title: Malignant ischemic stroke / Katja E. Wartenberg; title: Cerebral sinus thrombisis / Isabel Fragata and Aman Patel; title: Acute spinal cord injury / Scott Meyer ... [et al.]; title: Hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy / Adam Webb and Owen Samuels; title: Neurological infections / Stephen Krieger; title: Myasthenic crisis / Mark Sivac; title: Guillain-Barre syndrome / Jennifer A. Frontera; title: Critical illness polyneuropathy and myopathy / Valerie Dechant, Eduardo Adonias De Sousa, and Kiwon Lee; title: Brain death and organ donation / Jennifer A. Frontera; title: Management of elevated intracranial pressure / David Seder, Stephan Mayer, and Jennifer A. Frontera; title: Airway management and sedation / David C. Kramer, Irene Osborn, and Meagen Gaddis; title: Ventilator management / Mariana Nunez ... [et al.]; title: Prophylaxis / Sherry Hsiang-Yi Chou; title: Glucose management and nutrition / Jennifer A. Frontera; title: Induced normothermia and hypothermia / Katja Wartenberg and Stephan Mayer; title: Basics of neuroimaging / Chitra Venkatasubramanian and Christine A. J. Wijman; title: Grades of recommendations / Jennifer A. Frontera.