Neurocritical care
Subtitle: a guide to practical management
By: John P. Adams, Dominic Bell, Justin McKinlay (eds.).
Series: Competency-based critical care; Competency-based critical care
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2010
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 177
ISBN-13: 9781848820692; 9781848820708
Subjects: Brain; Therapy; Methods; Brain Injuries; Neurological intensive care; Critical Care; Wounds and injuries
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Brain injury and dysfunction : the critical role of primary management / M.D. Dominic Bell; title: Monitoring the injured brain / Simon Davies and Andrew Lindley; title: The secondary management of traumatic  brain injury / Dominic Bell and John P. Adams; title: Critical care management of subarachnoid hemorrhage / Audrey C. Quinn and Simon P. Holbrook; title: Central nervous system infections / Abigail Walker and Miles Denton; title: Cervical spine injuries / John P. Adams, Jake Timothy, and Justin McKinlay; title: Recent advances in the management of acute ischemic stroke / Ahamad Hassan; title: Seizures on the adult intensive care unit / Morgan Feely and Nicola Cooper; title: Non-neurological complications of brain injury / John P. Adams; title: Acute weakness in intensive care / Louise Barnes and Michael Vucevic; title: Coma, confusion, and agitation in intensive care / Matthew Clark and Justin McKinlay; title: Death and donation in critical care : the diagnosis of brainstem death / Paul G. Murphy; title: Death and donation in critical care : management of deceased organ donation / Paul G. Murphy; title: Imaging the brain-injured patient / Tony Goddard and Kshitij Mankad; title: Ethical dilemmas within intensive care / M.D. Dominic Bell.