Seizures in Critical Care A Guide to Diagnosis and Therapeutics /

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Varelas, Panayiotis N. (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Totowa, NJ : Humana Press, 2005.
• Σειρά: Current Clinical Neurology
• Θέματα: Medicine.; Emergency medicine.; Critical care medicine.; Neurology.; Medicine & Public Health.; Intensive / Critical Care Medicine.; Emergency Medicine.

Epileptic events are now known to occur more frequently in the intensive care unit (ICU) than previously thought, a situation concealed by the many variables operating at any given moment in the ICU's environment of heavy drug and sedative use. In Seizures in Critical Care: A Guide to Diagnosis...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Presentation and Pathophysiology of Seizures in the Critical Care Environment
• Stroke and Critical Care Seizures
• Traumatic Brain Injury and Seizures in the ICU
• Brain Tumors and ICU Seizures
• Global Hypoxia-Ischemia and Critical Care Seizures
• Seizures in Renal and Hepatic Failure and Endocrine Disease
• Seizures in Organ Transplant Recipients
• Extreme Hypertension, Eclampsia, and Critical Care Seizures
• Infection or Inflammation and ICU Seizures
• Electrolyte Disturbance and Critical Care Seizures
• Alcohol-Related Seizures in the ICU
• Seizure-Inducing Drugs Used for the Critically Ill
• Critical Care Seizures Related to Illicit Drugs and Toxins
• Management of Status Epilepticus and Critical Care Seizures.