Springer Neurocritical Care

Product Description This book discusses the factors that affect outcomes in patients requiring various types of neurocritical care.  Neurocritical care was originally developed to manage patients with traumatic brain injury or stroke. Today, neurocritical care involves patients with a wide variety conditions, including not only brain injury, cerebrovascular disease and brain tumors but also post cardiac arrest syndrome, metabolic disorders, sepsis-related encephalopathy, degenerative diseases, and electrolyte abnormalities. Recently, there has been a focus on improving the outcomes and patients’ quality of life.   Covering the latest topics in the field, and written by specialists such as neurosurgeons, anesthesiologists and neurologists, the book provides an update on therapeutic / management strategies for disorders requiring neurocritical care for emergency physicians, intensivists and critical care physicians. Review “The book is meant for any practitioner with an interest in the field of neurocritical care. It provides a good, easy-to understand overview of the topics discussed and allows the more interested reader to dig deeper into topics of interest by listing a wide range of background articles.” (Isabella Meier, Anesthesia & Analgesia, Vol. 129 (6), December, 2019) “Trainees getting initial exposure to the field of neurocritical care are an appropriate audience for this work. … This is a worthy introduction to basic neurological support and related critical care principles.” (David J. Dries, Doody's Book Reviews, October 25, 2019) From the Back Cover This book discusses the factors that affect outcomes in patients requiring various types of neurocritical care.  Neurocritical care was originally developed to manage patients with traumatic brain injury or stroke. Today, neurocritical care involves patients with a wide variety conditions, including not only brain injury, cerebrovascular disease and brain tumors but also post cardiac arrest syndrome, metabolic disorders, sepsis-related encephalopathy, degenerative diseases, and electrolyte abnormalities. Recently, there has been a focus on improving the outcomes and patients’ quality of life.   Covering the latest topics in the field, and written by specialists such as neurosurgeons, anesthesiologists and neurologists, the book provides an update on therapeutic / management strategies for disorders requiring neurocritical care for emergency physicians, intensivists and critical care physicians. About the Author Kosaku Kinoshita Chair and Professor, Division of Emergency and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Acute Medicine, Nihon University School of Medicine