Neurocritical Care

Front Matter....Pages I-XXXI
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
General Assessment and Care of the New Patient....Pages 3-15
Standard Management and Prophylaxis....Pages 16-22
How to Approach an Unconscious Patient....Pages 23-35
Decisions to Implement and Withdraw Therapy in the Neurologic Intensive Care Unit....Pages 36-45
Documentation and Scores....Pages 46-56
Electrophysiologic Monitoring....Pages 59-73
Doppler Ultrasound Monitoring....Pages 74-89
Intracranial Pressure Monitoring....Pages 90-97
General Treatment Strategies for Elevated Intracerebral Pressure....Pages 101-115
Pain Relief and Sedation....Pages 116-124
Nutrition....Pages 125-138
Respiratory Management in Neurological Critical Care: Basics and Techniques of Artificial Ventilation....Pages 139-156
Swallowing Disturbances....Pages 157-161
Prophylaxis of Deep Venous Thrombosis....Pages 162-166
Principles of Immunomodulatory Therapy....Pages 167-172
General Management of Immunosuppressed Patients....Pages 173-178
Infection Control in Neurocritical Care....Pages 179-189
Organizing Nursing Care in a Neurocritical Care Unit....Pages 190-202
Early Rehabilitation....Pages 203-209
Communication Aids for Paralytic Patients....Pages 210-217
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Diagnosis of Brain Death....Pages 218-234
Organ-Preserving Therapy After Brain Death....Pages 235-240
Front Matter....Pages 241-241
The Comatose Patient....Pages 243-254
Acute Hemiparesis....Pages 255-269
Confusion, Psychosis, and Neuropsychological Symptoms....Pages 270-276
Seizures....Pages 277-284
Neck Stiffness and Headache....Pages 285-291
Tetraplegia and Paraplegia....Pages 292-306
Acute Muscular Weakness....Pages 307-318
Brain-Stem Syndromes....Pages 319-328
Ocular Motor Disturbances....Pages 329-341
Acute Visual Loss Due to Retrochiasmatic Lesions....Pages 342-343
Acute Visual Loss — Monocular Blindness....Pages 344-352
Acute Autonomic Instability....Pages 353-365
Abnormal Breathing Patterns....Pages 366-373
Front Matter....Pages 375-375
Bacterial Meningitis....Pages 377-397
Tuberculous Meningitis and Central Nervous System Tuberculosis....Pages 398-406
Brain Abscess and Empyema....Pages 407-417
Neurosyphilis....Pages 418-427
Neuroborreliosis....Pages 428-432
Front Matter....Pages 375-375
Cranial Trauma....Pages 679-707
Tetanus and Botulism....Pages 433-440
Other Bacterial Infections....Pages 441-445
Spinal Abscesses....Pages 446-451
Herpesvirus Encephalitis....Pages 455-467
Other Viral Infections....Pages 468-492
Acute Disseminated Encephalomyelitis (Parainfectious and Postvaccinal Encephalitis)....Pages 493-499
HIV Infection and Associated Opportunistic Infections....Pages 500-511
Fungal Infections....Pages 515-529
Parasitic Infections....Pages 530-542
Chronic Meningitis....Pages 543-550
General Therapy of Acute Ischemic Stroke....Pages 553-577
Special Aspects in the Treatment of Severe Hemispheric Brain Infarction....Pages 578-595
Vertebrobasilar Stroke, Cerebellar Stroke, and Basilar Occlusion....Pages 596-606
Septic Embolic Encephalitis....Pages 607-612
Vasculitis of the Central Nervous System....Pages 613-620
Spontaneous Intracerebral Hemorrhage....Pages 621-631
Subarachnoid Hemorrhage....Pages 632-653
Cerebral Sinus Venous Thrombosis....Pages 654-660
Spinal Vascular Malformations and Ischemic Lesions of the Spinal Cord....Pages 661-676
Front Matter....Pages 375-375
Metabolic Encephalopathies....Pages 835-839
Wernicke’s Encephalopathy (Wernicke-Korsakoff Syndrome)....Pages 840-845
Alcoholic Delirium and Other Withdrawal Syndromes....Pages 846-855
Leigh’s Disease (Subacute Necrotizing Encephalomyelopathy)....Pages 856-859
Reye’s Syndrome....Pages 860-865
Central Pontine Myelinolysis....Pages 866-868
Spinal Trauma....Pages 708-724
Acute Inflammatory Polyneuropathy (Guillain-Barré Syndrome)....Pages 773-787
Chronic Inflammatory Demyelinating Polyneuropathy....Pages 788-795
The Porphyrias....Pages 796-800
Critical Illness Neuropathy....Pages 801-806
Myasthenia gravis and Lambert-Eaton Myasthenic Syndrome....Pages 807-815
Polymyositis and Dermatomyositis....Pages 816-821
Rhabdomyolysis and Acute Presentations of Myopathies....Pages 822-826
Acute Dyskalemic Periodic Paralysis....Pages 827-832
General Treatment of Brain Tumors....Pages 727-736
Lymphomas of the Central Nervous System....Pages 737-742
Carcinomatous and Leukemic Meningitis....Pages 743-748
Metastatic Spinal Cord Compression....Pages 749-757
Status Epilepticus....Pages 761-769
Front Matter....Pages 375-375
Acute Obstructive Hydrocephalus....Pages 869-882
Parkinson’s Disease....Pages 883-887
Life-Threatening Hyperthermic Syndromes....Pages 888-896
Sleep Apnea Syndrome and Other Ventilatory Disturbances....Pages 897-903
Pseudotumor Cerebri....Pages 904-910
Stiff-Man Syndrome....Pages 911-914
Front Matter....Pages 915-915
Disturbances of Water and Electrolyte Balance....Pages 917-927
Renal Diseases....Pages 928-936
Hepatic Coma....Pages 937-950
Neurological Symptoms Associated with Endocrine Diseases....Pages 951-964
Blood Diseases and Neurologic Symptoms....Pages 965-974
Systemic Immunologic Diseases Affecting the Nervous System....Pages 975-982
Neurologic Complications in Organ Transplantation....Pages 983-996
Cardiac Care in Critically Ill Neurological Patients....Pages 997-1009
Back Matter....Pages 1011-1044