Research Catalog

Title

Seizures in critical care : a guide to diagnosis and therapeutics / edited by Panayiotis N. Varelas ; foreword by Susan S. Spencer.

Publication

Totowa, N.J. : Humana Press, [2005], ©2005.

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Details

Additional Authors

Varelas, Panayiotis N.

Description

xiv, 380 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Summary

"In Seizures in Critical Care: A Guide to Diagnosis and Therapeutics, a panel of international ICU and epilepsy physicians and researchers detail the epileptic phenomena that occur in the complex environment of the ICU. Focusing on the central nervous system, the authors systematically examine the most up-to-date evidenced-based data regarding ICU seizures, including their most frequent causes, their pathophysiology, their clinical presentation, and the diagnostic evaluation needed to confirm their presence. They also discuss the challenges and specifics of the management of ICU seizures, reviewing the new anti-epileptics and their interaction with other ICU medications, drugs with epileptogenic properties used in the ICU, and the role of the new enterally available antiepileptics in treating such seizures. Numerous tables summarize drug interactions, neuroimages reveal common ICU seizure etiologies, and multiple electroencephalographic recordings demonstrate clinical or subclinical seizures in ICU patients."--BOOK JACKET.

Series Statement

Current clinical neurology

Uniform Title

Current clinical neurology.

Subjects

• Seizures > diagnosis
• Convulsions
• Critical care medicine
• Critical Care > methods
• Seizures > therapy

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

1. Presentation and pathophysiology of seizures in the critical care environment : an overview / Marek A. Mirski -- 2. Stroke and critical care seizures / Panayiotis N. Varelas and Lotfi Hacein-Bey -- 3. Traumatic brain injury and seizures in the ICU / Andrew Beaumont and Grant Sinson -- 4. Brain tumors and ICU seizures / Efstathios Papavassiliou and Panayiotis N. Varelas -- 5. Global hypoxia-ischemia and critical care seizures / Matthew A. Koenig and Romergryko Geocadin -- 6. Seizures in renal and hepatic failure and endocrine disease / Andrew Beaumont -- 7. Seizures in organ transplant recipients / Greg A. Worrell and Eelco F. M. Wijdicks -- 8. Extreme hypertension, eclampsia, and critical care seizures / Errol Gordon and Michel T. Torbey -- 9. Infection or inflammation and ICU seizures / Wendy C. Ziai -- 10. Electrolyte disturbance and critical care seizures / Jenice Robinson and Jose I. Suarez -- 11. Alcohol-related seizures in the ICU / Zachary Webb -- 12. Seizure-inducing drugs used for the critically ill / Rebecca E. Schuman and Panayiotis N. Varelas -- 13. Critical care seizures related to illicit drugs and toxins / Andreas R. Luft -- 14. Management of status epilepticus and critical care seizures / Panayiotis N. Varelas and Marianna V. Spanaki.

ISBN

• 1588293424 (alk. paper)
• 1592598412 (e-ISBN)

LCCN

2004004126

OCLC

• ocm54501461
• SCSB-5135617

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries