Neurocritical Care

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Kinoshita, Kosaku (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Critical care medicine.; Emergency medicine.; Neurosurgery.; Intensive / Critical Care Medicine.; Emergency Medicine.

This book discusses the factors that affect outcomes in patients requiring various types of neurocritical care. Neurocritical care was originally developed to manage patients with traumatic brain injury or stroke. Today, neurocritical care involves patients with a wide variety conditions, including...

Table of Contents:

• 1 Sedation and analgesia for patients with acute brain injury
• 2 Respiratory management in neurological intensive care
• 3 Body temperature care for comatose post cardiac arrest syndrome (PCAS) patients
• 4 Infection Control for Neurocritical Care
• 5 Fluid management for neurocritical care
• 6 The evaluation and management of the blood glucose for the intracranial disease
• 7 Nutritional support in neurocritical care
• 8 Pathology and Prevention of Secondary Brain Injury for Neurocritical Care Physicians
• 9 Coagulopathy and Brain Injury
• 10 Stroke
• 11 Multiple injury
• 12 Nonconvulsive status epilepticus
• 13 Post Cardiac Arrest Syndrome
• 14 Sepsis and sepsis-associated encephalopathy: Its pathophysiology from bench to bed
• 15 Acute Infections of the Central Nervous System: Focus on Bacterial Meningitis and Herpes Simplex Encephalitis
• 16 Pediatric Neurocritical Care
• 17 Post-Intensive Care Syndrome
• 18 Coping with prognostic uncertainty and end-of-life issues in neurocritical care.