<p><strong><em>An essential reference for the entire neurocritical care team</em></strong></p><p>This unique book presents an authoritative guide to the medical and surgical management of complex neurosurgical problems encountered in the critical care setting. It provides straightforward summaries of each stage of patient care, guiding the reader through initial assessment, including ordering the appropriate lab work, triage procedures, such as how to manage patients with multi-system injuries, and sedation and pain management. The book also covers important nursing and medical-legal issues related to neurosurgical intensive care.</p><p><strong>Features:</strong></p><ul><li>Guidance on how to manage systemic complications, diseases, and infections</li><li>Practical review of concepts in neuropharmacology and nutrition, and procedures for fluid management and ventilator management</li><li>Select case examples throughout the book that supplement discussion of the decision-making process</li><li>Recommendations for communicating with and caring for the families of neurosurgical intensive care unit patients</li></ul><p>This comprehensive book provides a wealth of information that is essential for neurosurgeons, intensive care unit nurses, house staff, nurse practitioners, physicians' assistants, residents at all levels, and medical students.</p>

<p>1. Bedside Neurologic Exam<br>2. Altered Mental Status and Coma: Pathophysiology and Management<br>3. Neuroimaging and the Neurosurgical Intensive Care Unit Patient<br>4. Diagnostic Laboratory Studies in the ICU Patient: What, When, and How Often?<br>5. Team Management of the Multisystem-Injured Neurosurgical Intensive Care Unit Patient<br>6. The Spinal Cord Injury Patient<br>7. Delayed Intracerebral Hemorrhage<br>8. Sedation and Pain Management in the Neurosurgical Intensive Care Unit Patient<br>9. Homeostatic Mechanisms in the Neurosurgical Intensive Care Unit Patient<br>10. Neurophysiology in the Neurosurgical Intensive Care Unit: Options, Indications, and Interpretations<br>11. Cerebral Perfusion<br>12. Cerebrospinal Fluid Dynamics and Pathology<br>13. Intracranial Pressure Fundamentals<br>14. Cerebral Protection Measures<br>15. Neuropharmacology<br>16. Nutrition<br>17. Fluid Management<br>18. Ventilator Management<br>19. Seizure Disorders: Diagnosis and Management<br>20. Infections<br>21. Cerebral Microdialysis in the Neurosurgical Intensive Care Unit<br>22. Anticoagulation and Antiplatelet Therapy in the Neurosurgical Intensive Care Unit<br>23. Restraints in the Neurosurgical Intensive Care Unit Patient<br>24. Unique Pediatric Neurosurgical Intensive Care Unit Issues<br>25. Systemic Complications and Disease-Specific Phenomena Leading to Ischemic Injury<br>26. Acute Ischemic Stroke<br>27. Brain Death<br>28. Family Communication<br>29. Spiritual Care of the Neurosurgical Intensive Care Unit Patient and Family<br>30. Medical-Legal Issues in the Neurosurgical Intensive Care Unit<br>31. Discharge Planning for the Neurosurgical Intensive Care Unit Patient</p>