The Brain of the Critically Ill Pregnant Woman is a volume in the Critical Care in Obstetrics series. This novel reference educates physicians, nurses, and all allied healthcare personnel on updates for caring for pregnant women with neurological compromise. The book's authors have gathered the best evidence-based material that is explicitly focused on severe neurological complications in pregnant patients and postpartum. Among the chapters, the book covers medical-surgical complications that any patient can present, such as head trauma and complications specific to pregnancy.
- Includes obstetric concepts with updated knowledge of pathophysiology
- Offers best practice approaches and interventions regarding the fetus
- Explores the use and effects of drugs in the pregnant patient and during nursing
- Written by authors with extensive clinical experience in neurocritical care and critical obstetric care
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Elsevier Science & Techn.
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978-0-443-15204-7 (9780443152047)
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SECTION 1 Critical care1. Neurologic complications in the obstetric patientSECTION 2 Neurologic monitorings2. Intracranial pressure monitoring and pregnancy3. Monitoring of cerebral oxygenation4. Neuromonitoring in critically ill pregnant patients5. Multinodal neuromonitoringSECTION 3 Imaging6. Computed tomography findings in critical neurological conditions in the obstetric patient7. Cerebral angiography and neurovascular intervention: General considerations specific to cerebral angiography and neurovascular intervention in pregnant patients8. Transcranial Doppler in pregnancySECTION 4 Encephalopathy9. Hepatic encephalopathy during pregnancy10. Wernicke encephalopathySECTION 5 Vascular disease11. Acute ischemic stroke12. General approach to neurocritical care in obstetrics: The brain of the critically ill pregnant woman13. Thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura14. Venous sinus thrombosis and pregnancySECTION 6 Neurological disease15. Headache in pregnancy16. Coma and brain death in pregnancy17. Eclampsia18. Central nervous system infections in pregnancySECTION 7 Weakness syndromes19. Myasthenia gravis and pregnancy20. Multiple sclerosis and pregnancy21. Guillain-Barré syndrome in pregnancySECTION 8 Trauma22. Traumatic brain injury in critically ill pregnant women23. Spinal traumaSECTION 9 Neurosurgery in pregnant woman24. Intracranial surgerySECTION 10 Brain implications in cardiac arrest25. Cerebral resuscitation from cardiac arrestSECTION 11 The fetus26. Fetal surveillance in the neurocritical pregnant patientSECTION 12 Airway and mechanical ventilation27. Mechanical ventilation in the brain-injured pregnant woman28. Remote neurocritical monitoring of the critically ill pregnant patient29. Highly infectious central nervous system infections
