Neurocritical Care

Patients in the neurointensive care unit pose many clinical challenges for the attending physician. Even experienced clinicians occasionally arrive at the point where diagnostic, work-up, treatment, or prognostic thinking becomes stymied. In daily practice, neurocritical care pertains to managing deteriorating patients, treatment of complications but also end-of-life care assisting families with difficult decisions. Part of the "What Do I Do Now?" series,Neurocritical Care provides insight into interventions in acute neurologic disorders. Using a case-based approach, this volume emphasizes how to handle comparatively common clinical problems emergently. New to this edition are cases on monitoring and prognostication. All cases have been carefully revised, and new information, references, and practical tables have been added. Neurocritical Care is both an engaging collection of thought-provoking cases and a self-assessment tool that tests the reader's ability to answer the question, "What do I do now?"

EELCO F. M. WIJDICKS, MD, PhD, FNCS is a Professor of Neurology, the Chair of Critical Care Neurology, and a consultant in the Neurosciences Intensive Care Unit at the Mayo Clinic Campus, Saint Marys Hospital in Rochester, Minnesota. ALEJANDRO A. RABINSTEIN, MD, FNCS is a Professor of Neurology, in the division of Critical Care Neurology, the Medical Director of the Neurosciences Intensive Care Unit, and a Consultant in the Neurosciences Intensive Care Unit at the Mayo Clinic Campus, Saint Marys Hospital in Rochester, Minnesota. SARA E. HOCKER, MD is an Assistant Professor of Neurology in the Division of Critical Care Neurology, the Director of the Neurocritical Care Fellowship Program, and a Consultant in the Neurosciences Intensive Care Unit at the Mayo Clinic Campus, Saint Marys Hospital in Rochester, Minnesota. JENNIFER E. FUGATE, DO is an Assistant Professor of Neurology in the Division of Critical Care Neurology and a Consultant in the Neurosciences Intensive Care Unit at the Mayo Clinic Campus, Saint Marys Hospital in Rochester, Minnesota