Overview
- Provides up-to-date strategies for neurocritical care
- Covers treatments for various disorders
- Focuses on neurointensive care for intensivists and related physicians
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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.
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.
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Table of contents (18 chapters)
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Front Matter
Reviews
“The book is meant for any practitioner with an interest in the field of neurocritical care. It provides a good, easy-to understand overview of the topics discussed and allows the more interested reader to dig deeper into topics of interest by listing a wide range of background articles.” (Isabella Meier, Anesthesia & Analgesia, Vol. 129 (6), December, 2019)
“Trainees getting initial exposure to the field of neurocritical care are an appropriate audience for this work. … This is a worthy introduction to basic neurological support and related critical care principles.” (David J. Dries, Doody's Book Reviews, October 25, 2019)
“Trainees getting initial exposure to the field of neurocritical care are an appropriate audience for this work. … This is a worthy introduction to basic neurological support and related critical care principles.” (David J. Dries, Doody's Book Reviews, October 25, 2019)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Kosaku KinoshitaChair and Professor, Division of Emergency and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Acute Medicine, Nihon University School of Medicine
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Neurocritical Care
Editors: Kosaku Kinoshita
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-7272-8
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-13-7271-1Published: 07 June 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-13-7274-2Published: 15 August 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-981-13-7272-8Published: 23 May 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 225
Number of Illustrations: 14 b/w illustrations, 16 illustrations in colour
Topics: Intensive / Critical Care Medicine, Emergency Medicine, Neurosurgery