Textbook of Neurointensive Care: Volume 2

Dr A. Joseph Layon is Professor of Anesthesiology at the University of Central Florida College of Medicine and Medical Director of the Medical-Surgical ICU at HCA-Florida-Lake City Hospital. He has worked throughout the US and in countries as disparate as Nicaragua and Nigeria, the latter with Medecins sans Frontieres. His most recent published work has been on the sociology and philosophy of medicine, and he is involved with groups such as Physicians for a National Health System and Jewish Voice for Peace.

Dr Andrea Gabrielli is a Professor of Anesthesiology, Perioperative Medicine, and Pain Management at the University of Miami Miller School of Surgery. He is currently the Chief of Anesthesiology Critical Care Medicine. He received his medical degree from the University of Rome and trained at the Cleveland Clinic and the University of Florida. He is board-certified in General Surgery (EC) and Anesthesiology with board-specialty qualifications in Critical Care Medicine and  Neurointensive Care. His academic interests have included research in cardiopulmonary resuscitation, neurotrauma, respiratory care, and health care innovation.

Dr Peter Le Roux received his medical degree and doctorate in neuroscience from the University of Cape Town in South Africa and trained in Neurosurgery at the University of Washington in Seattle, WA, USA. This included training at Atkinson Morley Hospital in London, England and research at the Ecole Normale Superieure in Paris, France.  He currently is Professor of Neurosurgery at the University of Rochester.

Dr Le Roux has a longstanding record in translational research in brain resuscitation and recovery and is an internationally known expert in subarachnoid hemorrhage and traumatic brain injury management and in neurocritical care. His basic science focused on factors that mediate neuronal dendrite growth. He has contributed to the traumatic brain injury guidelines for Emergency Neurological Life Supportand the International Olympic Committee. Dr Le Roux has given more than 330 invited lectures in 15 countries.

He has been recognized with the Young Neurosurgeon Award from the World Federation of Neurosurgical Societies, the Charles A. Elsberg Fellow of the New York Academy of Medicine and is listed in US News and World Report's 'Top Doctors'; Best Doctors in America, Who's Who in the World, America's Top Surgeons and Philadelphia's Top Doctors. In 2015 he received the Presidential Service Award from the Neurocritical Care Society.

Dr Kristine O'Phelan received her medical degree from Boston University School of Medicine. She completed a residency in neurology at the University of Miami, Jackson Memorial Hospital, and fellowship training in Neurotrauma and Neurocritical Care at the University of California, Los Angeles Center for Health Sciences, Division of Neurosurgery. She is certified by The American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology and the United Council for Neurologic Subspecialties. Her major subspecialty interest is in critical care of neurotrauma, subarachnoid hemorrhage and other neurosurgical illnesses. Dr O'Phelan is a Professor of Clinical Neurology and has been with the Department of Neurology in the University of Miami, Miller School of Medicine and Director of Neurocritical Care since 2008.

Dr Elizabeth Mahanna Gabrielli is an Associate Professor of Anesthesiology, Perioperative Medicine, and Pain Management at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine and Division Chief of Geriatric Anesthesiology. She completed her medical doctorate at the University of Texas at Southwestern in 2007 and her residency in Anesthesiology at Rush University in 2011. She completed fellowships in Critical Care Medicine and Neuroanesthesiology at the University of Florida and an NIH T32 research fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania focusing on Perioperative Brain Health in the geriatric population. She is board certified in An

Intraoperative Neuroanesthesia.- Cranial procedures.- Complex Spine Surgery.- Airway Management in the Neurointensive Care Unit.- Critical Care Procedures.- Echocardiography and Ultrasound applications.- Invasive Neuromonitoring.- Noninvasive Neuromonitoring.- Multimodality Monitoring with information integration.- Neurological applications of hemodynamic and pulmonary monitoring.- Systemic Illness and Multisystem Organ Failure.- Environmental injury: toxins, overdose, drowning, thermal burns.- Consultative Neurocritical Care.- Sedation, Analgesia and paralysis.- Anticoagulants and reversal agents.- Antiplatelet agents and platelet function assays.- Thrombolytics and antifibrinolytics.- Osmotherapy.- Steroids and Immunomodulating agents.- Anticonvulsants.- Neurostimulants.- Metrics of Quality Improvement.- Early neurorehabilitation approach in patients with severe acquired brain injury.- Nutrition.- International Neurocritical Care.- Ethical and legal Considerations.- Disastermanagement: Pandemics, Mass casualty, and Biological warfare.- Research Challenges in the NeuroICU.