Neurotrauma and critical care of the brain
By: [edited by] Jack Jallo, Christopher M. Loftus.
Contributors: Jallo, Jack.; Loftus, Christopher M.
Publisher: Thieme
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781604060324
Subjects: Brain damage; Neurological intensive care; Brain Injuries -- diagnosis; Brain Injuries -- therapy; Critical Care -- methods
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Epidemiology / Victor G. Coronado; title: Pathophysiology / Ross Bullock and Marinella Gugliotta; title: Biomarkers and surrogate markers of brain injury / Alexander Brawanski and Sylvia Bele; title: Non invasive monitoring / Ramon Diaz-Arrastia ... [et al.]; title: Monitoring of brain : pressures, flows and brain tissue probes / Marek Czosnyka ... [et al.]; title: Classification systems for brain injury / Thomas Gennarelli and Marjorie Wang; title: Introduction to brain trauma imaging / Beverly Hershey ... [et al.]; title: Endovascular therapy in neurotrauma / Jeffrey P. Kochan; title: Mild brain injury / Julian Bailes, and Vincent Miele; title: Moderate brain injury / Shelly Timmons and John Winestone; title: Severe brain injury / Joshua Heller and Andrew Maas; title: Wartime Penetrating injuries of the brain / Rocco Armonda ... [et al.]; title: Scientific surgical management / Randall Chesnut; title: Pediatric brain injury / John Ragheb and Ryan Trombly; title: Neurologic / Lori Shutter; title: Pulmonary critical care / Gerard Criner, Sheila Weaver, and Ubaldo Martin; title: Cardiovascular / Adnan Qureshi, and Mustafa Ezzeddine; title: Nutrition / Toshihiko Yanagawa and Rani Nasser; title: Infection / Gregory Mayro, Rafik Samuel, and Bennett Lorber; title: Fluids/electrolytes / Jim Hitt; title: Rehabilitation / David Cifu ... [et al.]; title: Prognosis / Rosalyn Ngyugen, Ross Zafonte, and Heechin Chae; title: Ethics : life and death choices / Paul J. Ford and Abhishek Deshpande; title: The medicolegal issues / Frederick Levy and Nisha C. Wagle; title: Cost of traumatic brain injuries in the United States and the return on helmet investments / Ted Miller, Eduard Zaloshnja and Delia Hendrie.