Neurocritical Care

Description

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. Front Matter ....Pages i-viii Sedation and Analgesia for Patients with Acute Brain Injury (Atsushi Sakurai)....Pages 1-9 Respiratory Management in Neurological Intensive Care (Rikimaru Kogawa)....Pages 11-22 Body Temperature Care for Comatose Patients with Post-cardiac Arrest Syndrome (Takashi Moriya, Masahiro Kashiura)....Pages 23-29 Infection Control for Neurocritical Care (Yuki Uehara)....Pages 31-43 Fluid Management for Neurocritical Care (Akira Utagawa)....Pages 45-62 The Evaluation and Management of the Blood Glucose for the Intracranial Disease (Takashi Moriya)....Pages 63-70 Nutritional Support in Neurocritical Care (Kunihiro Shirai)....Pages 71-78 Pathology and Prevention of Secondary Brain Injury for Neurocritical Care Physicians (Kenji Dohi)....Pages 79-87 Coagulopathy and Brain Injury (Ryuta Nakae, Shoji Yokobori, Hiroyuki Yokota)....Pages 89-109 Stroke (Hitoshi Kobata)....Pages 111-128 Multiple Injury (Takayuki Ebihara)....Pages 129-144 Nonconvulsive Status Epilepticus (Masao Nagayama, Sunghoon Yang)....Pages 145-164 Post-cardiac Arrest Syndrome (PCAS) (Yasuhiro Kuroda)....Pages 165-173 Sepsis and Sepsis-Associated Encephalopathy: Its Pathophysiology from Bench to Bed (Motoki Fujita, Ryosuke Tsuruta)....Pages 175-186 Acute Infections of the Central Nervous System: Focus on Bacterial Meningitis and Herpes Simplex Encephalitis (Akihiko Morita, Masaki Ishihara)....Pages 187-194 Pediatric Neurocritical Care (Takashi Araki)....Pages 195-211 Post-intensive Care Syndrome (Toru Hifumi, Shigeaki Inoue)....Pages 213-219 Coping with Prognostic Uncertainty and End-of-Life Issues in Neurocritical Care (Yasuhiro Norisue)....Pages 221-225