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Contents

Part I General Principles of Neurocritical Care

1 Establishing and Organizing a Neuroscience Critical Care Unit ....... 3Marek A. Mirski

2 Electrolyte and Metabolic Derangements ............................................. 13Nikki Jaworski and Ansgar Brambrink

3 Fever and Infections ................................................................................ 37Neeraj Badjatia

4 Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism: Physiology and Monitoring........................................................................................ 51Jeremy Fields and Anish Bhardwaj

5 Multimodality Monitoring in Acute Brain Injury ............................... 61Kristine H. O’Phelan, Halinder S. Mangat,  Stephen E. Olvey, and M. Ross Bullock

6 Cerebral Edema and Intracranial Hypertension ................................. 73Matthew A. Koenig

7 Cardiac Dysfunction, Monitoring, and Management .......................... 89Andrew Naidech

8 Airway Management and Mechanical Ventilation in the NCCCU ......................................................................................... 99Paul Nyquist

9 Blood Pressure Management ................................................................. 115Ameer E. Hassan, Haralabos Zacharatos, and Adnan I. Qureshi

10 Nutrition in Neurocritical Care ............................................................. 123Tara Nealon

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11 Sedation, Analgesia, and Neuromuscular Paralysis ............................ 145Marek A. Mirski

12 Postoperative Care .................................................................................. 173W. Andrew Kofke and Robert J. Brown

13 Care Following Neurointerventional Procedures ................................. 217Yahia M. Lodi, Julius Gene Latorre, Jesse Corry,  and Mohammed Rehman

14 Ethical Issues and Withdrawal of Life-Sustaining Therapies ............ 247Wendy L. Wright

15 Collaborative Nursing Practice in the Neurosciences Critical Care Unit.................................................................................... 265Filissa M. Caserta

Part II Specific Problems in Neurocritical Care

16 Coma and Disorders of Consciousness ................................................. 277Edward M. Manno

17 Acute Encephalopathy ............................................................................ 287Robert D. Stevens, Aliaksei Pustavoitau, and Tarek Sharshar

18 Traumatic Brain Injury .......................................................................... 307Geoffrey S.F. Ling and Scott A. Marshall

19 Acute Myelopathy ................................................................................... 323Angela Hays and Julio A. Chalela

20 Ischemic Stroke ....................................................................................... 341Neeraj S. Naval and Anish Bhardwaj

21 Intracerebral Hemorrhage ..................................................................... 353Neeraj S. Naval and J. Ricardo Carhuapoma

22 Intraventricular Hemorrhage ................................................................ 365Kristi Tucker and J. Ricardo Carhuapoma

23 Subarachnoid Hemorrhage .................................................................... 371Eric M. Bershad and Jose I. Suarez

24 Brain Injury Following Cardiac Arrest ................................................ 389Romergryko G. Geocadin

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25 Meningitis and Encephalitis ................................................................... 409Barnett R. Nathan

26 Cerebral Venous Sinus Thrombosis ...................................................... 421Agnieszka A. Ardelt

27 Neuroleptic Malignant Syndrome, Malignant Hyperthermia, and Serotonin Syndrome ........................................................................ 435Panayiotis N. Varelas and Tamer Abdelhak

28 Brain Tumors  .......................................................................................... 445Sherry Hsiang-Yi Chou

29 Hydrocephalus ......................................................................................... 469Michel T. Torbey

30 Neuromuscular Disorders ...................................................................... 475Jeremy D. Fields and Anish Bhardwaj

31 Status Epilepticus .................................................................................... 489Marek A. Mirski

32 Deep Venous Thrombosis and Pulmonary Embolism ......................... 505Wendy C. Ziai

33 Neurocritical Illness During Pregnancy and Puerperium ................... 523Chere Monique Chase and Cindy Sullivan

34 Brain Death and Organ Donation ......................................................... 533Alexander Y. Zubkov and Eelco F.M. Wijdicks

Index ................................................................................................................. 541