Seizures in critical care
Subtitle: a guide to diagnosis and therapeutics
By: edited by Panayiotis N. Varelas ; foreword by Susan S. Spencer.
Contributors: Varelas, Panayiotis N.
Series: Current clinical neurology
Publisher: Humana Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Totowa, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 380
Subjects: Convulsions.; Critical care medicine.; Seizures -- diagnosis.; Seizures -- therapy.; Critical Care -- methods.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: value: Presentation and pathophysiology of seizures in the critical care environment: an overview / Marek A. Mirski; value: Stroke and critical care seizures / Panayiotis N. Varelas and Lotfi Hacein Bey; value: Traumatic brain injury and seizures in the ICU / Andrew Beaumont and Grant Sinson; value: Brain tumors and ICU seizures / Efstathios Papavassiliou and Panayiotis N. Varelas; value: Global hypoxia-ischemia and critical care seizures / Matthew A. Koenig and Romergryko Geocadin; value: Seizures in renal and hepatic failure and endocrine disease / Andrew Beaumont; value: Seizures in organ transplant recipients / Greg A. Worrell and Eelco F. M. Wijdicks; value: Extreme hypertension, eclampsia, and critical care seizures / Errol Gordon and Michel T. Torbey; value: Infection or inflammation and ICU seizures / Wendy C. Ziai; value: Electrolyte disturbance and critical care seizures / Jenice Robinson and Jose I. Suarez; value: Alcohol-related seizures in the ICU / Zachary Webb; value: Seizure-inducing drugs used for the critically ill / Rebecca E. Schuman and Panayiotis N. Varelas; value: Critical care seizures related to illicit drugs and toxins / Andreas R. Luft; value: Management of status epilepticus and critical care seizures / Panayiotis N. Varelas and Marianna V. Spanaki.