In Neurotrauma and Critical Care of the Brain, leading clinicians present widely accepted guidelines and evidence-based practices for the management of patients with traumatic brain injury. Divided into five main sections, the book guides the clinician through the science, management, critical care, outcomes, and important socioeconomic issues relevant to patient care.
Special Features: * Offers the valuable team approach and recommendations of renowned surgeons, clinicians, rehabilitation specialists, and researchers * Includes guidelines for injuries ranging from mild to moderate, severe, and penetrating, and for treating brain injury in children * Covers the related intensive care issues of neurologic, pulmonary, cardiovascular, and infection management and nutrition and fluid control * Reviews fundamental science concepts, including pathophysiology, monitoring and imaging, biomarkers and classification systems for brain injury * Provides hundreds of concise summary tables and illustrations to help digest complex information * Discusses ethics and important end-of-life issues With an integrated management approach to injury and rehabilitation that goes well beyond initial surgery, Neurotrauma and Critical Care of the Brain will enable neurosurgeons, neurologists, physicians in trauma, critical care, and rehabilitation medicine, and residents in these specialties to optimize patient care and outcomes. It is also useful as a guide for board exam preparation. The companion volume to this book is Neurotrauma and Critical Care of the Spine.
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Introduction 1. Epidemiology Science 2. Pathophysiology 3. Biomarkers and Surrogate Markers of Brain Injury 4. Non Invasive Monitoring Technology 5. Invasive Monitoring Technology 6. Classification Systems for Brain Injury 7. Imaging Brain Injury Management 8. Mild Brain Injury 9. Moderate Brain Injury 10. Severe Brain Injury 11. Penetrating Brain Injury 12. Surgery 13. Pediatric Brain Injury 14. Nursing Care of Traumatic Brian Injury Critical Care 15. Neurologic 16. Pulmonary 17. Cardiac 18. Nutrition 19. Infection 20. Fluids/Electrolytes Outcome 21. Rehabilitation 22. Prognosis Socioeconomics 23. Ethics/Death 24. Legal 25. Economics
