Neurocritical Care [Paperback]

Part of the What Do I Do Now? series,Neurocritical Careprovides insight into interventions in acute neurologic disorders. Using a case-based approach, this volume emphasizes how to handle comparatively common clinical problems emergently.Patients in the neurointensive care unit pose many clinical challenges for the attending physician. Even experienced clinicians occasionally arrive at the point where diagnostic, work-up, treatment, or prognostic thinking becomes stymied. In daily practice, neurocritical care pertains to managing deteriorating patients, treatment of complications but also end-of-life care assisting families with difficult decisions. Part of the What Do I Do Now? series,Neurocritical Careprovides insight into interventions in acute neurologic disorders. Using a case-based approach, this volume emphasizes how to handle comparatively common clinical problems emergently. New to this edition are cases on monitoring and prognostication. All cases have been carefully revised, and new information, references, and practical tables have been added. Neurocritical Care is both an engaging collection of thought-provoking cases and a self-assessment tool that tests the reader's ability to answer the question, What do I do now? Section I: Acute Interventions1. Rapid Progression in Lobar Cerebral Hemorrhage2. Cerebral Hemorrhage and High INR3. Traumatic Brain Injury Arriving in the Emergency Department4. Meningitis Not Improving After IV Antibiotics5. Acute Encephalitis and Abnormal MRI6. A Psychotic Break and Seizures7. Acutely Progressive Dyspnea and Limb Weakness8. Swollen Lips After IV Thrombolysis9. When to Retrieve a Clot in Acute Stroke10. Swollen Ischemic Brain and When to Call the Neurosurgeon11. Cerebral Venous Thrombosis Not Responding to Anticoagulation12. The First Week After Aneurysmal Subarachnoid Hemorrhage13. The Neurointerventionalist and Aneurysmal Subarachnoid Hemorrhage14. A Worrisome MRI Of The Spine and Prior Cancer15. lS,