Critical care neurology.: (Neurology of critical illness) - volume 141

New subspecialties in neurology continue to germinate, and neurocritical care / critical care neurology is one of the more recent ones. The field has matured significantly over the last two decades, and a neurointensivist is now a recognizable and legitimate specialty. Neurocritical care specialists and general neurologists consulting in the ICU are both regularly faced with patients in acute, life-threatening situations, with neurologic or neurosurgical crises emanating either from a preexisting neurologic syndrome or as a new neurologic complication appearing in the course of another medical or surgical critical illness. These two separate clinical situations form the pillars of neurocritical care, and therefore these practices are being addressed via two separate but closely related HCN volumes. Chapters in both focus on pathophysiology and management and are tailored towards both the general neurologist and active neurocritical specialists. The focus is on management over diagnostics. Part I addresses the principles of neurocritical care and the management of various neurologic diseases. Part II addresses the interplay between neurologic complications and the surgical, medical, cardiac and trauma critical illnesses which most typically present in the ICU.

. Aids non-neuocritical care specialist neurologists in consulting on surgical, medical, cardiac and trauma cases with neurologic complications.
. Offers coverage of all the most frequent neurologic complications of associated disease requiring intensive care.
. Edited work with chapters authored by leaders in the field around the globe - the broadest, most expert coverage available.