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Neurocritical Care
Title
Neurocritical Care [electronic resource] / edited by Kosaku Kinoshita.
ISBN
9789811372728
Publication
Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
Physical Description
1 online resource (VIII, 225 p.) 30 illus., 16 illus. in color.
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Summary
This book discusses the factors that affect outcomes in patients requiring various types of neurocritical care. Neurocritical care was originally developed to manage patients with traumatic brain injury or stroke. Today, neurocritical care involves patients with a wide variety conditions, including not only brain injury, cerebrovascular disease and brain tumors but also post cardiac arrest syndrome, metabolic disorders, sepsis-related encephalopathy, degenerative diseases, and electrolyte abnormalities. Recently, there has been a focus on improving the outcomes and patients’ quality of life. Covering the latest topics in the field, and written by specialists such as neurosurgeons, anesthesiologists and neurologists, the book provides an update on therapeutic / management strategies for disorders requiring neurocritical care for emergency physicians, intensivists and critical care physicians.
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Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 05, 2019
Contents
1 Sedation and analgesia for patients with acute brain injury
2 Respiratory management in neurological intensive care
3 Body temperature care for comatose post cardiac arrest syndrome (PCAS) patients
4 Infection Control for Neurocritical Care
5 Fluid management for neurocritical care
6 The evaluation and management of the blood glucose for the intracranial disease
7 Nutritional support in neurocritical care
8 Pathology and Prevention of Secondary Brain Injury for Neurocritical Care Physicians
9 Coagulopathy and Brain Injury
10 Stroke
11 Multiple injury
12 Nonconvulsive status epilepticus
13 Post Cardiac Arrest Syndrome
14 Sepsis and sepsis-associated encephalopathy: Its pathophysiology from bench to bed
15 Acute Infections of the Central Nervous System: Focus on Bacterial Meningitis and Herpes Simplex Encephalitis
16 Pediatric Neurocritical Care
17 Post-Intensive Care Syndrome
18 Coping with prognostic uncertainty and end-of-life issues in neurocritical care.
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