Emergency Management in Neurocritical Care (eBook)

Edward M. Manno, MD, FCCM, FAAN, FAHA, Head, Neurological Intensive Care Unit, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, USA

List of Contributors vi

Series Foreword viii

Preface ix

PART I: ACUTE MANAGEMENT OF NEUROLOGICAL EMERGENCIES

1 Hypertensive Emergency 3

Laurie McWilliams

2 Airway Management in the Neurological and Neurosurgical
Patient 12

Michael J. Souter

3 Traumatic Brain Injury and Intracranial Hypertension 21

Iain J. McCullagh and Peter J.D. Andrews

4 Critical Care Management of Acute Spinal Cord Injury 32

Edward M. Manno

5 Subarachnoid Hemorrhage 37

Muhammad A. Taqi and Michel T. Torbey

6 Acute Management of Cerebral Ischemia 45

Leonid Groysman and Gene Sung

7 Neurocritical Care of Intracerebral Hemorrhage 55

James M. Gebel Jr

8 Acute Management of Status Epilepticus 63

Jan Claassen

PART II: CEREBROVASCULAR CRITICAL CARE

9 Post-procedural Management of Patients with Aneurysmal
Subarachnoid Hemorrhage 73

Tomoko Rie Sampson and Michael N. Diringer

10 Care of the Neurointerventional Patient in the Neurointensive
Care Unit 84

Rishi Gupta

11 New Treatment Strategies in the Management of Large
Hemispheric Strokes and Intracerebral Hemorrhages 92

Edward M. Manno

12 Presentation and Management of Acute Cerebral Venous
Thrombosis 99

Patrycia Canhao and Jose M. Ferro

PART III: INFECTIONS OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM

13 Infections in the Neurocritical Care Unit 111

Denise H. Rhoney, Karen J. McAllen, and Dennis Parker

14 Diagnosis and Management of Bacterial and Viral Meningitis
123

Maxwell S. Damian

15 Encephalitis: Presentation and Management 132

Ali E. Elsayed and Barnett R. Nathan

PART IV: NEUROMUSCULAR COMPLICATIONS ENCOUNTERED IN THE
INTENSIVE CARE UNIT

16 Practical Management of Guillain-Barre Syndrome and
Myasthenic Crisis 143

Alejandro A. Rabinstein

PART V: NEUROLOGICAL COMPLICATIONS AND CONSULTATIONS IN
GENERAL INTENSIVE CARE UNITS

17 Metabolic Encephalopathies 155

Edward M. Manno

18 Delirium and Sedation in the ICU 162

Jennifer A. Frontera

19 Neurologic Complications of Cardiac Surgery 174

Cathy Sila

20 Neurological Complications of Medical Illness: Critical
Illness Neuropathy and Myopathy 182

Edward M. Manno

21 Hypothermia: Application and Use in Neurocritical Care
188

Edward M. Manno

22 Etiologies of Posterior Reversible Encephalopathy Syndrome
and Forms of Osmotic Demyelination Syndrome 197

J. Javier Provencio

PART VI: ACUTE NEUROIMAGING AND NEUROMONITORING IN
NEUROCRITICAL CARE

23 Application of MR Diffusion, CT Angiography and Perfusion
Imaging in Stroke Neurocritical Care 207

Carlos Leiva-Salinas, Wade Smith and Max Wintermark

24 Advanced Monitoring of Brain Oxygenation and Metabolism
214

Bharath R. Naravetla and J. Claude Hemphill III

Index 225

The color plate can be found facing page 54.

"This book accomplishes its aim. It is concise and
easy-to-read and provides more than just the essential
information." (Doody's, 4 January
2013)

"Emergency Management in Neurocritical Care gives you the
tools you need to perform under pressure in the neurocritical or
emergency care unit." (Buchtipps, 1 September
2012)