Main description:

This issue of Neurosurgery Clinics, edited by Alejandro A. Rabinstein, will focus on Neurocritical Care. Topics will include Anoxic-Ischemic Brain Injury, Practical Approach to Posttraumatic Intracranial Hypertension According to Pathophysiologic Reasoning, Management of Traumatic Brain Injury: An Update, Cortical Spreading Depression and Ischemia in Neurocritical Patients, Targeted Temperature Management in Brain-Injured Patients, Herpes Virus Encephalitis in Adults: Current Knowledge and Old Myths, Primary Acute Neuromuscular Respiratory Failure, Intensive Care Unit-Acquired Weakness, Recent Advances in the Acute Management of Intracerebral Hemorrhage, New Developments in Refractory Status Epilepticus, Acute Cardiac Complications in Critical Brain Disease, Nosocomial Infections in the Neurointensive Care Unit, Neurologic Complications of Solid Organ Transplantation, and Shared Decision Making in Neurocritical Care.

Contents:

Neurocritical Care - Table of Contents

Preface: Neurocritical Care: Growth from Interdisciplinary Collaboration

Pathophysiology and Management of Intracranial Hypertension and Tissular Brain Hypoxia After Severe Traumatic Brain Injury: An Integrative Approach

Management of Traumatic Brain Injury: An Update

Cortical Spreading Depression and Ischemia in Neurocritical Patients

Targeted Temperature Management in Brain Injured Patients

Aneurysmal Subarachnoid Hemorrhage: Unanswered Questions

Recent Advances in the Acute Management of Intracerebral Hemorrhage

New Developments in Refractory Status Epilepticus

Acute Cardiac Complications in Critical Brain Disease

Nosocomial Infections in the Neurointensive Care Unit

Shared Decision Making in Neurocritical Care