Emergency Management in Neurocritical Care

List of Contributors vi
Series Foreword viii
Preface ix
PART I: ACUTE MANAGEMENT OF NEUROLOGICAL EMERGENCIES
1 Hypertensive Emergency 3
Laurie McWilliams
2 Airway Management in the Neurological and NeurosurgicalPatient 12
Michael J. Souter
3 Traumatic Brain Injury and Intracranial Hypertension 21
Iain J. McCullagh and Peter J.D. Andrews
4 Critical Care Management of Acute Spinal Cord Injury 32
Edward M. Manno
5 Subarachnoid Hemorrhage 37
Muhammad A. Taqi and Michel T. Torbey
6 Acute Management of Cerebral Ischemia 45
Leonid Groysman and Gene Sung
7 Neurocritical Care of Intracerebral Hemorrhage 55
James M. Gebel Jr
8 Acute Management of Status Epilepticus 63
Jan Claassen
PART II: CEREBROVASCULAR CRITICAL CARE
9 Post-procedural Management of Patients with AneurysmalSubarachnoid Hemorrhage 73
Tomoko Rie Sampson and Michael N. Diringer
10 Care of the Neurointerventional Patient in the NeurointensiveCare Unit 84
Rishi Gupta
11 New Treatment Strategies in the Management of LargeHemispheric Strokes and Intracerebral Hemorrhages 92
Edward M. Manno
12 Presentation and Management of Acute Cerebral VenousThrombosis 99
Patrycia Canhao and Jose M. Ferro
PART III: INFECTIONS OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM
13 Infections in the Neurocritical Care Unit 111
Denise H. Rhoney, Karen J. McAllen, and Dennis Parker
14 Diagnosis and Management of Bacterial and Viral Meningitis123
Maxwell S. Damian
15 Encephalitis: Presentation and Management 132
Ali E. Elsayed and Barnett R. Nathan
PART IV: NEUROMUSCULAR COMPLICATIONS ENCOUNTERED IN THEINTENSIVE CARE UNIT
16 Practical Management of Guillain-Barre Syndrome andMyasthenic Crisis 143
Alejandro A. Rabinstein
PART V: NEUROLOGICAL COMPLICATIONS AND CONSULTATIONS INGENERAL INTENSIVE CARE UNITS
17 Metabolic Encephalopathies 155
Edward M. Manno
18 Delirium and Sedation in the ICU 162
Jennifer A. Frontera
19 Neurologic Complications of Cardiac Surgery 174
Cathy Sila
20 Neurological Complications of Medical Illness: CriticalIllness Neuropathy and Myopathy 182
Edward M. Manno
21 Hypothermia: Application and Use in Neurocritical Care188
Edward M. Manno
22 Etiologies of Posterior Reversible Encephalopathy Syndromeand Forms of Osmotic Demyelination Syndrome 197
J. Javier Provencio
PART VI: ACUTE NEUROIMAGING AND NEUROMONITORING INNEUROCRITICAL CARE
23 Application of MR Diffusion, CT Angiography and PerfusionImaging in Stroke Neurocritical Care 207
Carlos Leiva-Salinas, Wade Smith and Max Wintermark
24 Advanced Monitoring of Brain Oxygenation and Metabolism214
Bharath R. Naravetla and J. Claude Hemphill III
Index 225
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