The Brain of the Critically Ill Pregnant Woman is a volume in the Critical Care in Obstetrics series. This novel reference educates physicians, nurses, and all allied healthcare personnel on updates for caring for pregnant women with neurological compromise. The book's authors have gathered the best evidence-based material that is explicitly focused on severe neurological complications in pregnant patients and postpartum. Among the chapters, the book covers medical-surgical complications that any patient can present, such as head trauma and complications specific to pregnancy.

Includes obstetric concepts with updated knowledge of pathophysiology
Offers best practice approaches and interventions regarding the fetus
Explores the use and effects of drugs in the pregnant patient and during nursing
Written by authors with extensive clinical experience in neurocritical care and critical obstetric care

SECTION 1 Critical care

1. Neurologic complications in the obstetric patient
SECTION 2 Neurologic monitorings

2. Intracranial pressure monitoring and pregnancy

3. Monitoring of cerebral oxygenation

4. Neuromonitoring in critically ill pregnant patients

5. Multinodal neuromonitoring
SECTION 3 Imaging

6. Computed tomography findings in critical neurological conditions in the obstetric patient

7. Cerebral angiography and neurovascular intervention: General considerations specific to cerebral angiography and neurovascular intervention in pregnant patients

8. Transcranial Doppler in pregnancy
SECTION 4 Encephalopathy

9. Hepatic encephalopathy during pregnancy

10. Wernicke encephalopathy
SECTION 5 Vascular disease

11. Acute ischemic stroke

12. General approach to neurocritical care in obstetrics: The brain of the critically ill pregnant woman

13. Thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura

14. Venous sinus thrombosis and pregnancy
SECTION 6 Neurological disease

15. Headache in pregnancy

16. Coma and brain death in pregnancy

17. Eclampsia

18. Central nervous system infections in pregnancy
SECTION 7 Weakness syndromes

19. Myasthenia gravis and pregnancy

20. Multiple sclerosis and pregnancy

21. Guillain-Barré syndrome in pregnancy
SECTION 8 Trauma

22. Traumatic brain injury in critically ill pregnant women

23. Spinal trauma
SECTION 9 Neurosurgery in pregnant woman

24. Intracranial surgery
SECTION 10 Brain implications in cardiac arrest

25. Cerebral resuscitation from cardiac arrest
SECTION 11 The fetus

26. Fetal surveillance in the neurocritical pregnant patient
SECTION 12 Airway and mechanical ventilation

27. Mechanical ventilation in the brain-injured pregnant woman

28. Remote neurocritical monitoring of the critically ill pregnant patient

29. Highly infectious central nervous system infections