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.
