The Central Nervous System in Pediatric Critical Illness and Injury

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Wheeler, Derek S. (Editor), Wong, Hector R. (Editor), Shanley, Thomas P. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Springer London, 2009.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Critical care medicine.; Pediatrics.; Medicine & Public Health.; Intensive / Critical Care Medicine.

The field of critical care medicine is in the midst of a dramatic change. Technological and scientific advances during the last decade have resulted in a fundamental change in the way we view disease processes, such as sepsis, shock, acute lung injury, and traumatic brain injury. Pediatric intensivi...

Table of Contents:

• Central Nervous System Monitoring
• Molecular Biology of Brain Injury
• Pediatric Intensive Care Unit Management of Neurosurgical Diseases
• Tumors of the Central Nervous System
• Intracranial Hypertension
• Nonaccidental Trauma and Shaken Baby Syndrome
• Evaluation of Coma
• Hypoxic Ischemic Encephalopathy After Cardiorespiratory Arrest
• Toxic and Metabolic Encephalopathies
• Infections of the Central Nervous System
• Status Epilepticus
• Diseases of the Peripheral Nervous System.