Research Catalog

Title

Neurological and neurosurgical intensive care / Allan H. Ropper ... [et al.].

Publication

Philadelphia : Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, c2004.

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Details

Additional Authors

Ropper, Allan H.

Description

vii, 391 p. : ill.; 26 cm.

Subject

• Neurological intensive care
• Surgical intensive care
• Nervous System Diseases > therapy
• Intensive Care Units
• Intensive Care
• Neurosurgical Procedures

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Pt. I. General Principles of Neurological Intensive Care -- 1. Introduction to Critical Care in Neurology and Neurosurgery -- 2. Intracranial Physiology and Elevated Intracranial Pressure -- 3. Management of Intracranial Hypertension and Mass Effect -- 4. Pulmonary Aspects of Neurological Intensive Care -- 5. Cardiovascular Aspects of Neurological Intensive Care -- 6. Fluid and Metabolic Derangements -- 7. Fever and Infections in the Neurological Intensive Care Unit -- 8. Electrophysiologic Monitoring in the Neurological Intensive Care Unit -- 9. Persistent Vegetative State and Brain Death -- Pt. II. Specific Problems in Neurological Intensive Care -- 10. Postoperative Neurosurgical Care -- 11. Neurological Complications of Critical Medical Illnesses -- 12. Head Injury -- 13. Critical Care of Acute Stroke -- 14. Management of Nontraumatic Brain Hemorrhage -- 15. Subarachnoid Hemorrhage -- 16. Intensive and Postoperative Care of Intracranial Tumors -- 17. Hypoxic-Ischemic Cerebral Injury -- 18. Critical Care of Guillain-Barre Syndrome -- 19. Treatment of the Critically Ill Patient with Myasthenia Gravis -- 20. Status Epilepticus -- 21. Viral Encephalitis and Bacterial Meningitis -- 22. Spinal Cord Injury -- 23. Ethical and Legal Aspects Applicable to the Neurological Intensive Care Unit.

ISBN

0781731968

LCCN

2003047692

OCLC

• ocm52166028
• SCSB-5198897

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries