Comprehensive guide to diagnosing and treating patients with common critical care illnesses and seizures
Provides the latest technologies and treatments while clarifying contradicting literature in the field
Updated and expanded volume remains the premier resource on this challenging topic
Updated and expanded to provide the neurologic, intensive and critical care communities a comprehensive guide to common critical care illnesses and seizures, this third edition remains the premier resource on seizures in critical care. In addition to covering etiology, pathophysiology, diagnosis, differential diagnosis and treatment options, chapters feature the latest technologies and treatments and integrate current literature. This unique and specialized text offers neurologists, intensivists, neurosurgeons, trauma surgeons, epileptologists, electrophysiologists and residents in various specialties clarity on this challenging set of comorbidities.

Table of contents (22 chapters)
Status Epilepticus - Lessons and Challenges from Animal Models
Keselman, Inna (et al.)
Pages 3-17
Impact of Seizures on Outcome
Sánchez Fernández, Iván (et al.)
Pages 19-29
Diagnosing and Monitoring Seizures in the ICU: The Role of Continuous EEG for Detection and Management of Seizures in Critically Ill Patients, Including the Ictal-Interictal Continuum
Osman, Gamaleldin (et al.)
Pages 31-49
Seizures and Quantitative EEG
Kim, Jennifer A. (et al.)
Pages 51-75
Spreading Depolarizations and Seizures in Clinical Subdural Electrocorticographic Recordings
Revankar, Gajanan S. (et al.)
Pages 77-90
Multimodality Monitoring Correlates of Seizures
Witsch, Jens (et al.)
Pages 91-102
Management of Critical Care Seizures
Swisher, Christa B. (et al.)
Pages 103-119
Management of Status Epilepticus in the Intensive Care Unit
Varelas, Panayiotis N. (et al.)
Pages 121-151
Ischemic Stroke, Hyperperfusion Syndrome, Cerebral Sinus Thrombosis, and Critical Care Seizures
Varelas, Panayiotis N. (et al.)
Pages 155-186
Hemorrhagic Stroke and Critical Care Seizures
Mahta, Ali (et al.)
Pages 187-193
Traumatic Brain Injury and Critical Care Seizures
Korbakis, Georgia (et al.)
Pages 195-209
Brain Tumors and Critical Care Seizures
Varelas, Panayiotis N. (et al.)
Pages 211-226
Global Hypoxia-Ischemia and Critical Care Seizures
Koffman, Lauren (et al.)
Pages 227-242
Fulminant Hepatic Failure, Multiorgan Failure and Endocrine Crisis and Critical Care Seizures
Macedo, Julian (et al.)
Pages 243-258
Organ Transplant Recipients and Critical Care Seizures
Nasr, Deena M. (et al.)
Pages 259-268
Extreme Hypertension, Eclampsia, and Critical Care Seizures
Torbey, Michel T.
Pages 269-276
Infection or Inflammation and Critical Care Seizures
Schomer, Andrew C. (et al.)
Pages 277-290
Electrolyte Disturbances and Critical Care Seizures
Sculier, Claudine (et al.)
Pages 291-310
Alcohol-Related Seizures in the Intensive Care Unit
Mehta, Chandan (et al.)
Pages 311-320
Drug-Induced Seizures in Critically Ill Patients
Rhoney, Denise H. (et al.)
Pages 321-341
Illicit Drugs and Toxins and Critical Care Seizures
McNulty, Maggie L. (et al.)
Pages 343-353
Seizures and Status Epilepticus in Pediatric Critical Care
Abend, Nicholas S.
Pages 355-367