Main description:

This textbook addresses the classical use of Transcranial Doppler (TCD) and Transcranial Color-Coded Duplex Sonography (TCCS), focusing on the usefulness of neurological monitoring beyond classical acute brain injuries present in the daily intensive care medical practice. It encompasses a wide range of critical pathologies where neurological impact is part of clinical evolution, offering practical approaches for managing, application and interpretation of neurosonology to assist the physician to making real-time individualized decisions at bedside.

It is an academic guide developed and edited by international experts being a very useful resource in daily practice for intensivists, neurologists, neurosurgeons and other specialists involving in critical care.

Contents:

Part I. Neurocritical Care: Concepts to Review
Chapter 1. Neurocritical Patient in ICU: An humanized view of our Medical Care as a Gold Standard.Chapter 2. Neurocritical Care Patient in ICU: Multidisciplinary Team Management (MTM)Chapter 3. Neuro-ICU: Monitoring and Management of Intracranial pressure. A practical ReviewChapter 4. Intracerebral Hemorrhage (ICH) Approach: Bedside Practical reviewChapter 5. Organ maintenance after Death by Neurological Criteria (DNC) in Neuro-ICU: The Importance of Donation
Chapter 6. Neuropharmacology in the ICU: Monitoring the Therapeutic Response and Neurological Hemodynamic Impact of our Therapeutic Decisions in real-timePart II. Neurosonology: Basic Principles
Chapter 7. Transcranial Doppler Ultrasound: Physical Principles
Chapter 8. Transcranial Doppler (TCD) and Transcranial Color-Coded Duplex Sonography (TCCS): Applied Neuroanatomy
Chapter 9. Transcranial Doppler (TCD/TCCS) and Cerebral Blood Flow: Applications in the Neurological Intensive Care unit
Part III. Neurosonology: Neurocritical Care Patient
Chapter 10. Transcranial Doppler (TCD / TCCS) and Cerebral Blood Flow Velocities: Parameters of normality Chapter 11. Transcranial Doppler (TCD/TCCS) Approaches: Acoustic Windows
Chapter 12. Neurocritical Patient in ICU: Transcranial Doppler (TCD/TCCS) as the brain stethoscope
Chapter 13. Neurosonology in the ICU: Transcranial Doppler (TCD) Protocol
Chapter 14. Transcranial Doppler (TCD/TCCS) Monitoring in the Intensive Care Unit: Usefulness of Two-Dimensional Ultrasound (2D) to Guide Neuromonitoring
Chapter 15. Neurosonology in ICU: Transcranial Color-Coded Duplex Sonography (TCCS) Protocol
Chapter 16. Transcranial color-coded duplex Sonography (TCCS): Importance of angle correction
Chapter 17. Neurocritical Care Monitoring in ICU: Measurement of the Cerebral Autoregulation by Transcranial Doppler (TCD)Chapter 18. Neuro-ICU: Cerebral hemodynamics and Transcranial Doppler (TCD/TCCS) waveform interpretation in the most common neurocritical pathologies
Chapter 19. Non-Invasive multimodal neuromonitoring in the ICU: The role of Transcranial Doppler (TCD/TCCS)Chapter 20. Acute Neurologic Injury in ICU: Vasomotor Reactivity testing by Transcranial Doppler (TCD/TCCS)
Chapter 21. Critical Closing Pressure in Acute Brain Injury: Usefulness of Transcranial Doppler as Neuromonitoring
Chapter 22. Transcranial Doppler Ultrasound Pulsatility Index: Utility and Clinical Interpretation
Chapter 23. Transcranial Doppler in Subarachnoid Hemorrhage: Usefulness in the Diagnosis and Monitoring of Cerebral VasospasmChapter 24. Subarachnoid Hemorrhage (SAH) in the Neuro-ICU: Usefulness of Transcranial Doppler (TCD/TCCS) for delayed cerebral ischemia (DCI) monitoring
Chapter 25. Aneurysmal Subarachnoid Hemorrhage and Endovascular Treatment: Usefulness of Transcranial Doppler (TCD/TCCS) for Cerebral Hemodynamic MonitoringChapter 26. Carotid dissection in ICU: Usefulness of bedside Ultrasound examination and pupillary early approach
Chapter 27. Carotid Disease: Usefulness of the Ultrasound
Chapter 28. Acute Neurologic Injury in the ICU: Role of Transcranial Doppler in Disorders of the Vertebrobasilar CirculationChapter 29. Intracerebral Venous System: Monitoring by Transcranial Color-Coded Duplex Sonography (TCCS)
Chapter 30. Arteriovenous Malformation (AVM) and Arteriovenous Fistula in the ICU:
Contributions of Transcranial Doppler (TCD/TCCS) to Diagnosis
Chapter 31. Stroke Prognosis: Monitoring the Hemodynamics and Blood Pressure by TCD/TCCS
Chapter 32. Acute Ischemic Stroke in ICU: Monitoring of arterial recanalization after Endovascular treatment (EVT) by Transcranial Doppler (TCD/TCCS)
Chapter 33. Transcranial Doppler (TCD) and Transcranial Color Coded Duplex Sonography (TCCS): Defining Collateral Cerebral Blood FlowChapter 34. Reversed Robin Hood Syndrome and Ischemic Stroke: Usefulness of Transcranial Doppler (TCD / TCCS) to real time monitoring
Chapter 35. Ischemic Stroke in the ICU: Bedside monitoring of the Cerebral Autoregulation status by Transcranial Doppler (TCD/TCCS) in the acute stageChapter 36. Sonothrombolysis: Usefulness of Transcranial Doppler Ultrasonography (TCDu)
Chapter 37. Neurosonology in ICU: Transcranial Doppler (TCD/TCCS) and Microemboli Detection
Chapter 38. Stroke and Right-to-Left shunt in ICU: Role of the Transcranial Doppler (TCD/TCCS)
Chapter 39. Neuro-orbital Ultrasound: Ocular color-coded duplex sonography (OCCS)
Chapter 40. Death by Neurological Criteria (DNC) in ICU: Usefulness of Transcranial Doppler (TCD)
Chapter 41. Intracerebral Hemorrhage in ICU: Dynamic Monitoring by Transcranial Color-Coded Duplex Sonography (TCCS)
Chapter 42. Transcranial Doppler (TCD/TCCS) and Traumatic brain injury (TBI): is there a role?Chapter 43. Sickle Cell Disease (SCD): Usefulness of Transcranial Doppler (TCD / TCCS) Monitoring
Part IV. Neurosonology: Beyond Usual Monitoring
Chapter 44. Comatose Patient in ICU: Early resuscitation guided by Transcranial Doppler (TCD/TCCS)Chapter 45. Post Cardiac Arrest Care: Usefulness of Transcranial Doppler (TCD/TCCS) in Cerebral Hemodynamic Monitoring after resuscitation
Chapter 46. Large Hemispheric Infarction (LHI): Usefulness of Transcranial Doppler (TCD/TCCS)
Chapter 47. Non-Convulsive Status Epilepticus (NCSE) in ICU: Bedside usefulness of TCD in comatose patient diagnosis. When the EEG is too far
Chapter 48. Patient with Preeclampsia in ICU: Usefulness of the Transcranial Doppler (TCD/TCCS) to monitor and predict the most common neurological complicationsChapter 49. ECMO patient in Intensive Care Unit: Usefulness of Neurosonology in Neurologic MonitoringChapter 50. Neuro-ICU: Usefulness of Transcranial Doppler (TCD/TCCS) to Monitoring of Neurological Impact from Mechanical Ventilation and Prone position in ARDS patients
Chapter 51. Acute Liver Failure (ALF) in ICU: Usefulness of Transcranial Doppler (TCD/TCCS)
Chapter 52. Sepsis in the ICU: Usefulness of Transcranial Doppler (TCD/TCCS) to Cerebral Hemodynamic MonitoringChapter 53. Infective Endocarditis and Stroke: Active Embolization Risk Monitoring by Transcranial Doppler (TCD/TCCS)
Chapter 54. Neurosurgical patient in ICU: Usefulness of Transcranial Doppler (TCD/TCCS) in postoperative monitoringChapter 55. Perioperative Cardiovascular Surgery: Transcranial Doppler (TCD/TCCS) as a tool in predicting neurological outcomeChapter 56. Decompressive Craniectomy in the ICU: Usefulness of Transcranial Doppler (TCD/TCCS) in the monitoring of hemodynamic changesChapter 57. Therapeutic Hypothermia (TH) in ICU: Cerebral Hemodynamics monitoring by Transcranial Doppler (TCD/TCCS)Chapter 58. Management of Brain tumors in ICU: Monitoring the Neurological impact by Transcranial Doppler (TCD/TCCS)Chapter 59. Point-of-Care Ultrasound: Guidance for Lumbar PunctureChapter 60. Intensive Care Unit- Acquired Weakness (ICUAW): Usefulness of bedside ultrasoundChapter 61. POCUS application in Neurocritical Care Patient: Transcranial Doppler (TCD/TCCS) as a part of POCUS, from the Brain Ultrasound to monitoring the systemic complicationsChapter 62. Intra-aortic-balloon-pump (IABP) in ICU: Cerebral Hemodynamics Monitoring by Transcranial Doppler (TCD/TCCS)Chapter 63. Brain Parenchyma: Usefulness of Transcranial Color-coded Duplex Sonography (TCCS)Chapter 64. ICP management by Osmotherapy with Mannitol and Hypertonic saline in ICU: Real time Effect on Optic Nerve Sheath Diameter monitoring by UltrasoundChapter 65. Neuroanesthesia: Usefulness of Transcranial Doppler (TCD)Chapter 66. Traumatic Brain Injury in Neuro-ICU: Usefulness and Experience of Robotic Transcranial Doppler (TCD)Chapter 67. Prehospital Transcranial Color-coded Duplex Sonography (TCCS): Usefulness for the Diagnosis and early Stroke treatmentChapter 68. Transcranial Doppler (TCD/TCCD) and Ultrasonography: An usefulness tool in the aeromedical transport. What should we consider?Chapter 69. Cerebral Hemodynamic Monitoring and Renal Replacement Therapy (RRT) in ICU: Usefulness of the Transcranial Doppler (TCD/TCCS)Chapter 70. Central Nervous system infection in ICU: Usefulness of Transcranial Doppler (TCD / TCCS) to cerebral hemodynamics monitoring
Chapter 71. Pneumoperitoneum and Trendelenburg position during abdominal surgery: Usefulness of Transcranial Doppler (TCD/TCCS) to non-invasive Intracranial Pressure monitoringChapter 72. Transcranial Doppler (TCD): Role for Patients after Concussion