Neurocritical Care

Section I: Acute Interventions 1. Rapid Progression in Lobar Cerebral Hemorrhage 2. Cerebral Hemorrhage and High INR 3. Traumatic Brain Injury Arriving in the Emergency Department 4. Meningitis Not Improving After IV Antibiotics 5. Acute Encephalitis and Abnormal MRI 6. A Psychotic Break and Seizures 7. Acutely Progressive Dyspnea and Limb Weakness 8. Swollen Lips After IV Thrombolysis 9. When to Retrieve a Clot in Acute Stroke 10. Swollen Ischemic Brain and When to Call the Neurosurgeon 11. Cerebral Venous Thrombosis Not Responding to Anticoagulation 12. The First Week After Aneurysmal Subarachnoid Hemorrhage 13. The Neurointerventionalist and Aneurysmal Subarachnoid Hemorrhage 14. A Worrisome MRI Of The Spine and Prior Cancer 15. Acute Paraplegia After Aortic Surgery 16. When Status Epilepticus Becomes Treatment Refractory 17. Medical Options in Brain Metastasis 18. Hemorrhage Into a Pituitary Tumor 19. Brain Edema and Hypertensive Urgency 20. Rare Toxicity After Chemotherapy 21. Failure To Awaken After Surgery 22. Awake and Then Not Awake After Uncomplicated Brain Surgery Section II: Monitoring 101 23. When a Spot EEG is Not Enough 24. When an Intracranial Pressure Monitor is Helpful Section III: Calls, Pages, and Other Alarms 25. Wild and Agitated After Acute Abdomen 26. Rigidity After Experimenting with Drugs 27. Sweating, Fever and Hypertension after Traumatic Brain Injury 28. Acute Fever and Profound Shock After Ruptured Cerebral Aneurysm 29. Coma and Chest X-Ray White-Out After a Fracture 30. When Blood Pressure Needs Control After Stroke 31. A Common Cardiac Arrhythmia After Stroke 32. Hypertension And Bradycardia in Severe Guillain Barré Syndrome 33. Myasthenia Gravis Improved but Not Off the Ventilator 34. Decreasing Serum Sodium in Aneurysmal Subarachnoid Hemorrhage 35. Increasing Serum Sodium After Surgery for Tumor in The Pituitary Region Section IV: Longterm Support, End Of Life Care, and Palliation 36. Care of a Persistently Comatose Teenager 37. Withdrawal of Care in an Elderly Person with Catastrophic Brain Injury 38. Not Yet Brain Dead 39. When to Mention Organ Donation Section V: Principles of Prognostication 40. What Neurologists Know About Outcome in Traumatic Brain Injury 41. What Neurologists Know About Outcome in Post Resuscitation Coma