Neurocritical Care

I General Approaches to Neurocritical Care.- Intensive Care and Monitoring.- 1. General Assessment and Care of the New Patient.- 2. Standard Management and Prophylaxis.- 3. How to Approach an Unconscious Patient.- 4. Decisions to Implement and Withdraw Therapy in the Neurologic Intensive Care Unit.- 5. Documentation and Scores.- General Monitoring.- 6. Electrophysiologic Monitoring.- 7. Doppler Ultrasound Monitoring.- 8. Intracranial Pressure Monitoring.- General Treatment Strategies.- 9. General Treatment Strategies for Elevated Intracerebral Pressure.- 10. Pain Relief and Sedation.- 11. Nutrition.- 12. Respiratory Management in Neurological Critical Care: Basics and Techniques of Artificial Ventilation.- 13. Swallowing Disturbances.- 14. Prophylaxis of Deep Venous Thrombosis.- 15. Principles of Immunomodulatory Therapy.- 16. General Management of Immunosuppressed Patients.- 17. Infection Control in Neurocritical Care.- 18. Organizing Nursing Care in a Neurocritical Care Unit.- 19. Early Rehabilitation.- 20. Communication Aids for Paralytic Patients.- 21. Diagnosis of Brain Death.- 22. Organ-Preserving Therapy After Brain Death.- II Differential Diagnosis of Symptoms and Signs.- 23. The Comatose Patient.- 24. Acute Hemiparesis.- 25. Confusion, Psychosis, and Neuropsychological Symptoms.- 26. Seizures.- 27. Neck Stiffness and Headache.- 28. Tetraplegia and Paraplegia.- 29. Acute Muscular Weakness.- 30. Brain-Stem Syndromes.- 31. Ocular Motor Disturbances.- 32. Acute Visual Loss Due to Retrochiasmatic Lesions.- 33. Acute Visual Loss - Monocular Blindness.- 34. Acute Autonomic Instability.- 35. Abnormal Breathing Patterns.- III Neurocritical Care for Defined Diseases.- Inflammatory Diseases: Bacterial Infections.- 36. Bacterial Meningitis.- 37. Tuberculous Meningitisand Central Nervous System Tuberculosis.- 38. Brain Abscess and Empyema.- 39. Neurosyphilis.- 40. Neuroborreliosis.- 41. Tetanus and Botulism.- 42. Other Bacterial Infections.- 43. Spinal Abscesses.- Inflammatory Diseases: Viral Infections.- 44. Herpesvirus Encephalitis.- 45. Other Viral Infections.- 46. Acute Disseminated Encephalomyelitis (Para infectious and Postvaccinal Encephalitis).- 47. HIV Infection and Associated Opportunistic Infections.- Inflammatory Diseases: Others.- 48. Fungal Infections.- 49. Parasitic Infections.- 50. Chronic Meningitis.- Stroke.- 51. General Therapy of Acute Ischemic Stroke.- 52. Special Aspects in the Treatment of Severe Hemispheric Brain Infarction.- 53. Vertebrobasilar Stroke, Cerebellar Stroke, and Basilar Occlusion.- 54. Septic Embolic Encephalitis.- 55. Vasculitis of the Central Nervous System.- 56. Spontaneous Intracerebral Hemorrhage.- 57. Subarachnoid Hemorrhage.- 58. Cerebral Sinus Venous Thrombosis.- 59. Spinal Vascular Malformations and Ischemic Lesions of the Spinal Cord.- Neurotrauma.- 60. Cranial Trauma.- 61. Spinal Trauma.- Central Nervous System Neoplasms, Metastases, and Carcinomatous Meningitis.- 62. General Treatment of Brain Tumors.- 63. Lymphomas of the Central Nervous System.- 64. Carcinomatous and Leukemic Meningitis.- 65. Metastatic Spinal Cord Compession.- Epilepsy.- 66. Status Epilepticus.- Neuromuscular Diseases.- 67. Acute Inflammatory Polyneuropathy (Guillain-Barré Syndrome).- 68. Chronic Inflammatory Demyelinating Polyneuropathy.- 69. The Porphyrias.- 70. Critical Illness Neuropathy.- 71. Myasthenia gravis and Lambert-Eaton Myasthenic Syndrome.- 72. Polymyositis and Dermatomyositis.- 73. Rhabdomyolysis and Acute Presentations of Myopathies.- 74. Acute Dyskalemic Periodic Paralysis.- Metabolic andMiscellaneous Diseases.- 75. Metabolic Encephalopathies.- 76. Wernicke's Encephalopathy (Wernicke-Korsakoff Syndrome).- 77. Alcoholic Delirium and other Withdrawal Syndromes.- 78. Leigh's Disease (Subacute Necrotizing Encephalomyelopathy).- 79. Reye's Syndrome.- 80. Central Pontine Myelinolysis.- 81. Acute Obstructive Hydrocephalus.- 82. Parkinson's Disease.- 83. Life-Threatening Hyperthermic Syndromes.- 84. Sleep Apnea Syndrome and Other Ventilatory Disturbances.- 85. Pseudotumor Cerebri.- 86. Stiff-Man Syndrome.- IV Neurological Manifestations of Internal Diseases.- 87. Disturbances of Water and Electrolyte Balance.- 88. Renal Diseases.- 89. Hepatic Coma.- 90. Neurological Symptoms Associated with Endocrine Diseases.- 91. Blood Diseases and Neurologic Symptoms.- 92. Systemic Immunologic Diseases Affecting the Nervous System.- 93. Neurologic Complications in Organ Transplantation.- 94. Cardiac Care in Critically Ill Neurological Patients.