A Quick Reference Text! Easy to read and practical in design, Neurocritical Care is the book specialists will turn to for quick reference. It concentrates on management problems, from diagnostic procedures to therapeutic strategies. Exact descriptions are given for treatment procedures, and it is easy to find the appropriate treatment for a given patient. International Expertise! More than 100 authors from North America have contributed to the book. The different strategies used on either side of the Atlantic have been described, the sections on neuroimaging have been reviewed by a neuroradiologist. Comprehensive in Scope! Both frequent and rare neurological diseases that may require critical care treatment and subjects of more general interest such as monitoring strategies, ethical problems, brain death and neurological disorders in internal medicine have been covered. Pathophysiology is also discussed, insomuch as it is important for understanding the treatment strategies.

I General Approaches to Neurocritical Care

Intensive Care and Monitoring
1. General Assessment and Care of the New Patient
2. Standard Management and Prophylaxis
3. How to Approach an Unconscious Patient
4. Decisions to Implement and Withdraw Therapy in the Neurologic Intensive Care Unit
5. Documentation and Scores
General Monitoring
6. Electrophysiologic Monitoring
7. Doppler Ultrasound Monitoring
8. Intracranial Pressure Monitoring
General Treatment Strategies
9. General Treatment Strategies for Elevated Intracerebral Pressure
10. Pain Relief and Sedation
11. Nutrition
12. Respiratory Management in Neurological Critical Care: Basics and Techniques of Artificial Ventilation
13. Swallowing Disturbances
14. Prophylaxis of Deep Venous Thrombosis
15. Principles of Immunomodulatory Therapy
16. General Management of Immunosuppressed Patients
17. Infection Control in Neurocritical Care
18. Organizing Nursing Care in a Neurocritical Care Unit
19. Early Rehabilitation
20. Communication Aids for Paralytic Patients
21. Diagnosis of Brain Death
22. Organ-Preserving Therapy After Brain Death
II Differential Diagnosis of Symptoms and Signs
23. The Comatose Patient
24. Acute Hemiparesis
25. Confusion, Psychosis, and Neuropsychological Symptoms
26. Seizures
27. Neck Stiffness and Headache
28. Tetraplegia and Paraplegia
29. Acute Muscular Weakness
30. Brain-Stem Syndromes
31. Ocular Motor Disturbances
32. Acute Visual Loss Due to Retrochiasmatic Lesions
33. Acute Visual Loss - Monocular Blindness
34. Acute Autonomic Instability
35. Abnormal Breathing Patterns
III Neurocritical Care for Defined Diseases
Inflammatory Diseases: Bacterial Infections
36. Bacterial Meningitis
37. Tuberculous Meningitisand Central Nervous System Tuberculosis
38. Brain Abscess and Empyema
39. Neurosyphilis
40. Neuroborreliosis
41. Tetanus and Botulism
42. Other Bacterial Infections
43. Spinal Abscesses
Inflammatory Diseases: Viral Infections
44. Herpesvirus Encephalitis
45. Other Viral Infections
46. Acute Disseminated Encephalomyelitis (Para infectious and Postvaccinal Encephalitis)
47. HIV Infection and Associated Opportunistic Infections
Inflammatory Diseases: Others
48. Fungal Infections
49. Parasitic Infections
50. Chronic Meningitis
Stroke
51. General Therapy of Acute Ischemic Stroke
52. Special Aspects in the Treatment of Severe Hemispheric Brain Infarction
53. Vertebrobasilar Stroke, Cerebellar Stroke, and Basilar Occlusion
54. Septic Embolic Encephalitis
55. Vasculitis of the Central Nervous System
56. Spontaneous Intracerebral Hemorrhage
57. Subarachnoid Hemorrhage
58. Cerebral Sinus Venous Thrombosis
59. Spinal Vascular Malformations and Ischemic Lesions of the Spinal Cord
Neurotrauma
60. Cranial Trauma
61. Spinal Trauma
Central Nervous System Neoplasms, Metastases, and Carcinomatous Meningitis
62. General Treatment of Brain Tumors
63. Lymphomas of the Central Nervous System
64. Carcinomatous and Leukemic Meningitis
65. Metastatic Spinal Cord Compession
Epilepsy
66. Status Epilepticus
Neuromuscular Diseases
67. Acute Inflammatory Polyneuropathy (Guillain-Barré Syndrome)
68. Chronic Inflammatory Demyelinating Polyneuropathy
69. The Porphyrias
70. Critical Illness Neuropathy
71. Myasthenia gravis and Lambert-Eaton Myasthenic Syndrome
72. Polymyositis and Dermatomyositis
73. Rhabdomyolysis and Acute Presentations of Myopathies
74. Acute Dyskalemic Periodic Paralysis
Metabolic andMiscellaneous Diseases
75. Metabolic Encephalopathies
76. Wernicke's Encephalopathy (Wernicke-Korsakoff Syndrome)
77. Alcoholic Delirium and other Withdrawal Syndromes
78. Leigh's Disease (Subacute Necrotizing Encephalomyelopathy)
79. Reye's Syndrome
80. Central Pontine Myelinolysis
81. Acute Obstructive Hydrocephalus
82. Parkinson's Disease
83. Life-Threatening Hyperthermic Syndromes
84. Sleep Apnea Syndrome and Other Ventilatory Disturbances
85. Pseudotumor Cerebri
86. Stiff-Man Syndrome
IV Neurological Manifestations of Internal Diseases
87. Disturbances of Water and Electrolyte Balance
88. Renal Diseases
89. Hepatic Coma
90. Neurological Symptoms Associated with Endocrine Diseases
91. Blood Diseases and Neurologic Symptoms
92. Systemic Immunologic Diseases Affecting the Nervous System
93. Neurologic Complications in Organ Transplantation
94. Cardiac Care in Critically Ill Neurological Patients.