Establishing and Organizing a Neuroscience Critical Care Unit........ 3
Marek A. Mirski
2 Electrolyte and Metabolic Derangements.............................................. 13
Nikki Jaworski and Ansgar Brambrink
3 Fever and Infections................................................................................ 37
Neeraj Badjatia
4 Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism: Physiology
and Monitoring........................................................................................ 51
Jeremy Fields and Anish Bhardwaj
5 Multimodality Monitoring in Acute Brain Injury................................ 61
Kristine H. O'Phelan, Halinder S. Mangat,
Stephen E. Olvey, and M. Ross Bullock
6 Cerebral Edema and Intracranial Hypertension.................................. 73
Matthew A. Koenig
7 Cardiac Dysfunction, Monitoring, and Management.......................... 89
Andrew Naidech
8 Airway Management and Mechanical Ventilation
in the NCCCU.......................................................................................... 99
Paul Nyquist
9 Blood Pressure Management.................................................................. 115
Ameer E. Hassan, Haralabos Zacharatos, and Adnan I. Qureshi
10 Nutrition in Neurocritical Care.............................................................. 123
Tara Nealon
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11 Sedation, Analgesia, and Neuromuscular Paralysis............................. 145
Marek A. Mirski
12 Postoperative Care................................................................................... 173
W. Andrew Kofke and Robert J. Brown
13 Care Following Neurointerventional Procedures................................. 217
Yahia M. Lodi, Julius Gene Latorre, Jesse Corry,
and Mohammed Rehman
14 Ethical Issues and Withdrawal of Life-Sustaining Therapies............. 247
Wendy L. Wright
15 Collaborative Nursing Practice in the Neurosciences
Critical Care Unit.................................................................................... 265
Filissa M. Caserta
Part II Specific Problems in Neurocritical Care
16 Coma and Disorders of Consciousness.................................................. 277
Edward M. Manno
17 Acute Encephalopathy............................................................................. 287
Robert D. Stevens, Aliaksei Pustavoitau, and Tarek Sharshar
18 Traumatic Brain Injury.......................................................................... 307
Geoffrey S.F. Ling and Scott A. Marshall
19 Acute Myelopathy.................................................................................... 323
Angela Hays and Julio A. Chalela
20 Ischemic Stroke........................................................................................ 341
Neeraj S. Naval and Anish Bhardwaj
21 Intracerebral Hemorrhage...................................................................... 353
Neeraj S. Naval and J. Ricardo Carhuapoma
22 Intraventricular Hemorrhage................................................................. 365
Kristi Tucker and J. Ricardo Carhuapoma
23 Subarachnoid Hemorrhage..................................................................... 371
Eric M. Bershad and Jose I. Suarez
24 Brain Injury Following Cardiac Arrest................................................. 389
Romergryko G. Geocadin
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25 Meningitis and Encephalitis.................................................................... 409
Barnett R. Nathan
26 Cerebral Venous Sinus Thrombosis....................................................... 421
Agnieszka A. Ardelt
27 Neuroleptic Malignant Syndrome, Malignant Hyperthermia,
and Serotonin Syndrome......................................................................... 435
Panayiotis N. Varelas and Tamer Abdelhak
28 Brain Tumors .......................................................................................... 445
Sherry Hsiang-Yi Chou
29 Hydrocephalus......................................................................................... 469
Michel T. Torbey
30 Neuromuscular Disorders....................................................................... 475
Jeremy D. Fields and Anish Bhardwaj
31 Status Epilepticus..................................................................................... 489
Marek A. Mirski
32 Deep Venous Thrombosis and Pulmonary Embolism.......................... 505
Wendy C. Ziai
33 Neurocritical Illness During Pregnancy and Puerperium................... 523
Chere Monique Chase and Cindy Sullivan
34 Brain Death and Organ Donation.......................................................... 533
Alexander Y. Zubkov and Eelco F.M. Wijdicks
Index.................................................................................................................. 541