Neurocritical Care , 1st ed. 2019

Coordinator: Kinoshita Kosaku

Language: English

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This book discusses the factors that affect outcomes in patients requiring various types of neurocritical care. 

Neurocritical care was originally developed to manage patients with traumatic brain injury or stroke. Today, neurocritical care involves patients with a wide variety conditions, including not only brain injury, cerebrovascular disease and brain tumors but also post cardiac arrest syndrome, metabolic disorders, sepsis-related encephalopathy, degenerative diseases, and electrolyte abnormalities. Recently, there has been a focus on improving the outcomes and patients? quality of life.
 
Covering the latest topics in the field, and written by specialists such as neurosurgeons, anesthesiologists and neurologists, the book provides an update on therapeutic / management strategies for disorders requiring neurocritical care for emergency physicians, intensivists and critical care physicians.
1 Sedation and analgesia for patients with acute brain injury 2 Respiratory management in neurological intensive care 3 Body temperature care for comatose post cardiac arrest syndrome (PCAS) patients 4 Infection Control for Neurocritical Care 5 Fluid management for neurocritical care 6 The evaluation and management of the blood glucose for the intracranial disease 7 Nutritional support in neurocritical care 8 Pathology and Prevention of Secondary Brain Injury for Neurocritical Care Physicians  9 Coagulopathy and Brain Injury 10 Stroke 11 Multiple injury 12 Nonconvulsive status epilepticus 13 Post Cardiac Arrest Syndrome  14 Sepsis and sepsis-associated encephalopathy: Its pathophysiology from bench to bed  15 Acute Infections of the Central Nervous System: Focus on Bacterial Meningitis and Herpes Simplex Encephalitis 16 Pediatric Neurocritical Care 17 Post-Intensive Care Syndrome 18 Coping with prognostic uncertainty and end-of-life issues in neurocritical care
Kosaku Kinoshita
Chair and Professor, Division of Emergency and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Acute Medicine, Nihon University School of Medicine 

Provides up-to-date strategies for neurocritical care

Covers treatments for various disorders

Focuses on neurointensive care for intensivists and related physicians