The Clinical Practice of Critical Care Neurology

This comprehensive and authoritative text provides guidance on problem-solving for the neurologist faced with treating acute neurologic disorders. Presented in four parts, the text begins with a discussion of the broad spectrum of basic management issues from pain management to airway management, nursing care, and physical therapy. A detailed Part II discusses monitoring devices and diagnostic procedures. Part III, organized by disorder, discusses common neurologic critical care using a standardized approach. Topics such as Guillain-Barre syndrome, brain death, acute bacterial meningitis, and cerebral venous thrombosis are covered in depth. The book concludes with a practical section on management of systemic complications in critically ill neurologic patients.