基本説明
Presents widely accepted guidelines and evidence-based practices for the management of patients with traumatic brain injury.
Full Description
A comprehensive guide to understanding and managing brain injuryIn Neurotrauma and Critical Care of the Brain, leading clinicians present widely accepted guidelines and evidence-based practices for the management of patients with traumatic brain injury. Divided into five main sections, the book guides the clinician through the science, management, critical care, outcomes, and important socioeconomic issues relevant to patient care.Special Features:Offers the valuable team approach and recommendations of renowned surgeons, clinicians, rehabilitation specialists, and researchers Includes guidelines for injuries ranging from mild to moderate, severe, and penetrating, and for treating brain injury in children Covers the related intensive care issues of neurologic, pulmonary, cardiovascular, and infection management and nutrition and fluid control Reviews fundamental science concepts, including pathophysiology, monitoring and imaging, biomarkers and classification systems for brain injury Provides hundreds of concise summary tables and illustrations to help digest complex information Discusses ethics and important end-of-life issues With an integrated management approach to injury and rehabilitation that goes well beyond initial surgery, Neurotrauma and Critical Care of the Brain will enable neurosurgeons, neurologists, physicians in trauma, critical care, and rehabilitation medicine, and residents in these specialties to optimize patient care and outcomes. It is also useful as a guide for board exam preparation.The companion volume to this book is Neurotrauma and Critical Care of the Spine.
Contents
ContentsIntroduction1. EpidemiologyScience2. Pathophysiology3. Biomarkers and Surrogate Markers4. Noninvasive Monitoring Technology5. Monitoring of the Brain: Pressures, Flows, and Brain Tissue Probes6. Classification Systems7. Introduction to Brain Injury ImagingEndovascular TherapyManagement9. Mild Brain Injury10. Moderate Brain Injury11. Severe Brain Injury12. Wartime Penetrating Injuries13. Scientific Surgical Management14. Pediatric Brian InjuryCritical Care15. Neurological Critical Care16. Pulmonary Critical Care17. Cardiovascular Critical Care18. Nutrition19. Infection20. Fluids/ElectrolytesOutcome21. Rehabilitation22. PrognosisSocioeconomics23. Ethics: Life and Death Choices24. Medicolegal Issues25. Cost of Traumatic Brain Injury and Return on Helmet Investment in the United States
