Neurological and Neurosurgical Intensive Care

Part 1 General principles of neurologic intensive care: physiology and clinical aspects of raised intracranial pressure, Allan H. Roper and Mark A. Rockoff; treatment of intracranial hypertension, Allan H. Roper; intracranial pressure monitoring devices, Gene H. Barnett; airway management and respiratory support, Sean K. Kennedy; cardiopulmonary aspects of acute neurologic diseases, Martin A. Samuels; nosocomial infections, Cyrus C. Hopkins; metabolic derangements of neurologic patients, Michael N. Diringer, et al; electrophysiologic monitoring, Keith H. Chiappa and Daniel B. Hoch. Part 2 Specific problems in neurologic intensive care: postoperative neurosourgical care, Allan H. Roper and Sean K. Kennedy; neurologic complications of critical medical illnesses, Thomas P. Bleck; management of severe head injury, Randall M. Chestnut and Lawrence F. Marshall; principles of diagnosis and management of occlusive cerebrovascular disease, C. Miller Fisher; therapy for acute ischemic stroke, Lawrence R. Wechsler and Walter Koroshetz; management of nontraumatic brain hemorrhage, Lawrence F. Borges; management of subarachnoid hemorrhage, J. Philip Kistler, et al; intensive and postoperative care of intracranial tumours, Mark Bilsky and Jerome B. Posner; coma after cardiac arrest - clinical features, prognosis and management, Kenneth Miaese and John H. Caronna; treatment of the critically ill patient with myasthenia Gravis, Matthew E. Fink; critical care of Guillain-Barre syndrome, Allan H. Ropper; status epilepticus, Thomas R. Browne and Mohamad Mikati; encephalitis, Robert T. Schooley; spinal cord compression, Christopher S. Ogilvy and Roberto C. Heros; diagnosis of death by brain criteria, Peter McL. Black; legal aspects of decision making in neurologic intensive care, Kevin M. McIntyre; ethical aspects of withdrawing treatment from patients with severe brain damage, James L. Bernat.