Description
Neurologic consultations are essential to patient outcomes, not only providing diagnostic, therapeutic, and prognostic advice but also directing care to the patient. Neurologic Complications of Critical Illness is the foremost guide for neurologists entering the intensive care unit (ICU). This fourth edition has been thoroughly updated, refreshed, and expanded in recognition of the vast number of changes in neurology and neurocritical care. In addition, every chapter provides a representative selection of the state-of-the art management and latest clinical innovations in critical care medicine.As with previous editions, the book offers practical advice on dealing with coma and outcome after cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), failure to awaken after surgery, delirium, new onset seizures, generalized weakness, acute paraplegia, movement disorders and many other manifestations of a neurologic emergency such as complications after organ transplantation, neurologic complications of invasive procedures and devices, complications from cardiac surgery, traumatic brain, spine and peripheral nerve injury, and environmental injuries such as hypothermia and near drowning. Chapters include a wealth of helpful tables, precise algorithms, and a large, curated selection of neuroimaging. Each chapter has a section to reconcile theory and practice.This edition offers new chapters on the interpretation of focal findings and acute movement disorders in critical illness, cancer immunotherapy and ethical dilemmas. This clinical text with dedicated coverage of all major neurologic illnesses will be helpful to a very wide audience of health care providers and any intensivist and general neurologist managing complex medical disorders, surgeries, and co-morbidities.
Table of Contents
Part I: Criteria, Urgency, and ImportanceChapter 1: Indications for a Neurologic Consult in the Intensive Care UnitChapter 2: Consulting in the Intensive Care UnitPart II: General Clinical Neurologic Problems in the Intensive Care UnitChapter 3: Acute Confusional State in the Intensive Care UnitChapter 4: Coma in the Intensive Care UnitChapter 5: Neurologic Manisfestations of Drugs Used for Analgesia and Anesthesia in the Intensive Care UnitChapter 6: Seizures in the Intensive Care UnitChapter 7: Generalized Weakness in the Intensive Care UnitChapter 8: Acute Neurological Focal Findings and Assymetries in the Intensive Care UnitChapter 9: Acute Movement Abnormaliites in the Intensive Care UnitPart III: Neurologic Complications in Medical and Surgical Intensive Care Units and Transplantation UnitsChapter 10: Neurologic Complications of Invasive Procedures and DevicesChapter 11: Neurologic Manifestations of Acute Bacterial InfectionsChapter 12: Neurological Manifestations of Infectious OutbreaksChapter 13: Neurologic Complications of Cardiac ArrestChapter 14: Neurologic Manifestations of Acid-Base Derangements, Electrolyte Disorders, and Endocrine CrisesChapter 15: Neurologic Complications of Acute Renal DiseaseChapter 16: Neurologic Manisfestations of Acute Hepatic FailureChapter 17: Neurologic Complications Associated with Disorders of Thrombosis and HemostasisChapter 18: Neurologic Complications of Acute Vasculities SyndromesChapter 19: Neurologic Complications in the Critically Ill Pregnant PatientChapter 20: Neurologic Complication of Cancer in the ICUChapter 21: Neurologic Complications of Aortic SurgeryChapter 22: Neurologic Complications of Cardiac SurgeryChapter 23: Neurologic Complications of Acute Environmental InjuriesChapter 24: Neurologic Complications of Drug Overdose, Poisoning, and TerrorismChapter 25: Neurologic Complications of Traumatic Brain InjuryChapter 26: Neurologic Complications of Trauma to the Spine, Spinal Cord, adn NervesChapter 27: Neurologic Complications of Organ TransplantationPart IV: Outcome in Central Nervous System CatastrophesChapter 28: Outcome of Acute Injury to the Central Nervous SystemPart V: Consultative Neurology and End of Life Care in the Intensive Care UnitChapter 29:The Neurologist and End of Life Care in the Intensive Care UnitChapter 30: The Neurologist and ICU Ethical Dilemmas
