The Flying Publisher Guide to Critical Care in Neurology

The number of dedicated neurointensive care units is growing greatly and, now more than ever, physicians need to learn how to take care of neurocritical patients. Critical Care in Neurology addresses the day-to-day management of patients in neurointensive care units, and in particular the clinical approach to common neurocritical conditions.
Neurointensive care is a relatively new field that has developed as a subspecialty of critical care and neurology. The goal of neurointensive care, and the neurointensivist, is to treat and prevent primary and secondary brain (or other nervous system) injury. Inherent in this goal are the monitoring tools unique to the neurointensive care unit, including the most basic but perhaps the most important tool, the neurologic examination. In the era of the subspecialty of critical care neurology, the neurologist is working now as an aggressive interventionalist who manages life-threatening disorders of the nervous system. The neurointensivist’s role is to help follow the neurologic status and treat the patient while integrating his/her knowledge of other organ systems and expertise in critical care, to provide the most comprehensive care possible for the patient.