Neurocritical Care

A Guide to Practical Management
Buch | Softcover
177 Seiten
2009
Springer London Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-84882-069-2 (ISBN)

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Management This book provides clear and concise guidelines for the clinician, on the management of adult brain injured patients. It steers the clinician through the complicated decisions that are demanded in these cases.
Brain injury is a worldwide leading cause of mortality and morbidity and requires early and appropriate management to minimize these adverse sequelae. Despite such needs, access to specialist centers is limited, forcing both immediate and secondary care of these patients onto generalist staff. These responsibilities are made more problematical by differences in patient management between and even within specialist centers, due in part to an insuffcient evidence-base for many interventions directed at brain injury. This book is borne out of the above observations and is targeted at em- gency and acute medicine, anesthetic and general intensive care staff caring for brain injury of diverse etiology, or surgical teams responsible for the inpatient care of minor to moderate head trauma. Although explaining the various facets of specialist care, the book is not intended to compete with texts directed at neurosciences staff, but aims to advise on optimal care in general hospitals, including criteria for transfer, by a combination of narrative on pathophysiology, principles of care, templates for documentation, and highly specifc algorithms for particular problems. It is intended that the content and structure can form the basis of guidelines and protocols that refect the needs of individual units and that can be constantly refned. Our ultimate goal is to promote informed, consistent, auditable, multidisciplinary care for this cohort of patients and we hope that this text contributes to that process.

Brain Injury and Dysfunction: The Critical Role of Primary Management.- Monitoring the Injured Brain.- The Secondary Management of Traumatic Brain Injury.- Critical Care Management of Subarachnoid Hemorrhage.- Central Nervous System Infections.- Cervical Spine Injuries.- Recent Advances in the Management of Acute Ischemic Stroke.- Seizures on the Adult Intensive Care Unit.- Non-Neurological Complications of Brain Injury.- Acute Weakness in Intensive Care.- Coma, Confusion, and Agitation in Intensive Care.- Death and Donation in Critical Care: The Diagnosis of Brainstem Death.- Death and Donation in Critical Care: Management of Deceased Organ Donation.- Imaging the Brain-Injured Patient.- Ethical Dilemmas Within Intensive Care.

From the reviews:

“This review of resuscitation and critical care principles for patients in neurologic crisis is part of the Competency-Based Critical Care series. … Emergency and critical care staff in general hospitals are an appropriate audience for this work … . majority of authors are neurologists, neurosurgeons, and neuroradiologists. … This is one of several newly available books in this area. I recommend this one for its concise and clear presentation, excellent illustrations, and protocols. … a good clinical quick read for the neuro intensive care unit.” (David J. Dries, Doody’s Review Service, June, 2010)

Erscheint lt. Verlag 21.12.2009
Reihe/Serie Competency-Based Critical Care
Zusatzinfo XVI, 177 p.
Verlagsort England
Sprache englisch
Maße 178 x 254 mm
Themenwelt Medizin / Pharmazie Medizinische Fachgebiete Intensivmedizin
Medizin / Pharmazie Medizinische Fachgebiete Neurologie
ISBN-10 1-84882-069-0 / 1848820690
ISBN-13 978-1-84882-069-2 / 9781848820692
Zustand Neuware
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