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Main description:

An essential reference for the entire neurocritical care team

This unique book presents an authoritative guide to the medical and surgical management of complex neurosurgical problems encountered in the critical care setting. It provides straightforward summaries of each stage of patient care, guiding the reader through initial assessment, including ordering the appropriate lab work, triage procedures, such as how to manage patients with multi-system injuries, and sedation and pain management. The book also covers important nursing and medical-legal issues related to neurosurgical intensive care.

Features:

Guidance on how to manage systemic complications, diseases, and infections
Practical review of concepts in neuropharmacology and nutrition, and procedures for fluid management and ventilator management
Select case examples throughout the book that supplement discussion of the decision-making process
Recommendations for communicating with and caring for the families of neurosurgical intensive care unit patients

This comprehensive book provides a wealth of information that is essential for neurosurgeons, intensive care unit nurses, house staff, nurse practitioners, physicians' assistants, residents at all levels, and medical students.


Contents:

1. Bedside Neurologic Exam

2. Altered Mental Status and Coma: Pathophysiology and Management

3. Neuroimaging and the Neurosurgical Intensive Care Unit Patient

4. Diagnostic Laboratory Studies in the ICU Patient: What, When, and How Often?

5. Team Management of the Multisystem-Injured Neurosurgical Intensive Care Unit Patient

6. The Spinal Cord Injury Patient

7. Delayed Intracerebral Hemorrhage

8. Sedation and Pain Management in the Neurosurgical Intensive Care Unit Patient

9. Homeostatic Mechanisms in the Neurosurgical Intensive Care Unit Patient

10. Neurophysiology in the Neurosurgical Intensive Care Unit: Options, Indications, and Interpretations

11. Cerebral Perfusion

12. Cerebrospinal Fluid Dynamics and Pathology

13. Intracranial Pressure Fundamentals

14. Cerebral Protection Measures

15. Neuropharmacology

16. Nutrition

17. Fluid Management

18. Ventilator Management

19. Seizure Disorders: Diagnosis and Management

20. Infections

21. Cerebral Microdialysis in the Neurosurgical Intensive Care Unit

22. Anticoagulation and Antiplatelet Therapy in the Neurosurgical Intensive Care Unit

23. Restraints in the Neurosurgical Intensive Care Unit Patient

24. Unique Pediatric Neurosurgical Intensive Care Unit Issues

25. Systemic Complications and Disease-Specific Phenomena Leading to Ischemic Injury

26. Acute Ischemic Stroke

27. Brain Death

28. Family Communication

29. Spiritual Care of the Neurosurgical Intensive Care Unit Patient and Family

30. Medical-Legal Issues in the Neurosurgical Intensive Care Unit

31. Discharge Planning for the Neurosurgical Intensive Care Unit Patient


PRODUCT DETAILS

ISBN-13: 9781626232341
Publisher: Thieme (Thieme Medical Publishers Inc)
Publication date: August, 2017
Pages: 576
Weight: 907g
Availability: Available
Subcategories: Accident & Emergency Medicine, Critical Care Medicine, Neurology, Neurosurgery
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