Critical Care Neurology Part II, Volume 141

Section 2: Neurologic complications of critical illness

Chapter 24: The scope of neurology of critical illness

• Abstract
• Conclusion

Chapter 25: Delirium in critically ill patients

• Abstract
• Introduction
• Epidemiology
• Neuropathology
• Clinical presentation
• Neurodiagnostics and imaging
• Hospital course and management
• Clinical trials and guidelines
• Complex clinical decisions
• Outcome prediction

Chapter 26: Posterior reversible encephalopathy in the intensive care unit

• Abstract
• Introduction
• Epidemiology
• Pathophysiology and neuropathology
• Clinical presentation
• Neurodiagnostics and imaging
• Hospital course and management
• Outcome prediction
• Clinical trials and guidelines
• Complex clinical decisions
• Neurorehabilitation
• Conclusions

Chapter 27: Acute neurotoxicology of drugs of abuse

• Abstract
• Introduction
• MAJOR neurotoxicologic syndromes
• Approach to the patient with an unknown ingestion
• conclusion

Chapter 28: Seizures in the critically ill

• Abstract
• Introduction
• Epidemiology
• Neuropathology
• Clinical presentation
• Neurodiagnostics and imaging
• Hospital course and management
• Clinical trials and guidelines
• Complex clinical decisions
• Outcome prediction
• Neurorehabilitation

Chapter 29: Intensive care unit-acquired weakness

• Abstract
• Epidemiology
• Neuropathology
• Risk factors for ICU weakness
• Clinical presentation
• Neurodiagnostics
• Hospital course and management
• Clinical trials and guidelines
• Complex clinical decisions
• Outcome prediction
• Neurorehabilitation

Chapter 30: Neurologic complications of transplantation

• Abstract
• Introduction
• Epidemiology
• Neuropathology
• Clinical presentation
• Treatment
• Drug toxicity
• Neurodiagnostics and imaging
• Outcome
• Central pontine myelinolysis
• Graft-versus-host disease
• Idiopathic hyperammonemia
• CNS infections
• Posttransplantation lymphoproliferative disorder (PLTD)
• Guidelines

Chapter 31: Neurologic complications of cardiac and vascular surgery

• Abstract
• Introduction
• Epidemiology
• Neuropathology
• Clinical presentation
• Neurodiagnostics and imaging
• Hospital course and management
• Clinical trials and guidelines
• Complex clinical decisions
• Outcome prediction
• Neurorehabilitation
• Conclusion

Chapter 32: Neurology of cardiopulmonary resuscitation

• Abstract
• Epidemiology
• Neuropathology
• Clinical presentation
• Neurodiagnostics and imaging
• Hospital course and management
• Clinical trials and guidelines
• Complex clinical decisions
• Outcome prediction
• Neurorehabilitation

Chapter 33: Therapeutic hypothermia protocols

• Abstract
• Introduction
• Neuropathology
• Neurodiagnostics and imaging
• Hospital course and management
• Clinical trials and guidelines
• Complex clinical decisions
• Outcome prediction

Chapter 34: Neurologic complications of polytrauma

• Abstract
• Introduction
• Neurovascular
• Altered mental status
• Seizures and electroencephalography
• Spinal complications
• Neuromuscular

Chapter 35: Neurologic complications in critically ill pregnant patients

• Abstract
• Introduction
• Epidemiology
• Neuropathology
• Clinical presentation
• Pregnancy-related clinical syndromes
• Neurodiagnostics and imaging
• Hospital course and management
• Clinical trials and guidelines
• Complex clinical decisions
• Outcome prediction
• Neurorehabilitation

Chapter 36: Neurologic complications of sepsis

• Abstract
• Epidemiology
• Neuropathology
• Clinical presentation and neurodiagnostics
• Hospital course and management

Chapter 37: Neurologic complications of acute environmental injuries

• Abstract
• Introduction
• Injuries related to fire (Thermal burns and respiratory intoxication)
• Injuries related to electricity (lightning and accidents with power lines)
• Injuries related to water (nonfatal drowning and decompression illness)
• Injuries related to extremes of temperature (heat stroke and accidental hypothermia)

Chapter 38: Neurologic manifestations of major electrolyte abnormalities

• Abstract
• Physiologic regulation of sodium and osmolality
• Pathophysiology and adaptive responses to sodium disturbances
• Neurologic manifestations
• Neurologic manifestations of disturbances of other ions

Chapter 39: Management of neuro-oncologic emergencies

• Abstract
• Introduction
• Direct effects of cancer
• Indirect complications of cancer to the nervous system
• Iatrogenic neurologic emergencies
• Conclusion

Chapter 40: Management of neurologic complications of coagulopathies

• Abstract
• Introduction
• Epidemiology
• Neuropathology
• Clinical presentation
• diagnostics and Neuroimaging
• Hospital course and management
• Clinical trials and guidelines
• Complex clinical decisions
• Outcome prediction
• Conclusion

Chapter 41: Prognosis of neurologic complications in critical illness

• Abstract
• Introduction
• Prognosis of ICU-acquired encephalopathy
• Prognosis of hepatic encephalopathy in acute liver failure
• Prognosis of ICU-acquired uremic encephalopathy
• Prognosis of ICU-acquired weakness
• Prognosis of posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome
• Prognosis of delirium in critically ill patients
• Prognosis of coma after cardiopulmonary resuscitation
• Prognosis of neurologic complications of liver transplantation
• Ethical considerations

Critical Care Neurology, Part II: Neurology of Critical Illness focuses on the care specialists and general neurologists that consult in the ICU and their work with patients in acute, life-threatening situations who are dealing with neurologic or neurosurgical crises emanating from either a preexisting neurologic syndrome or from a new neurologic complication appearing as a result of another medical or surgical critical illness.

These two separate clinical situations form the pillars of neurocritical care, hence these practices are addressed via two separate, but closely related, HCN volumes. Chapters in both focus on pathophysiology and management, and are tailored for both general neurologists and active neurocritical specialists, with a specific focus on management over diagnostics.

Part I addresses the principles of neurocritical care and the management of various neurologic diseases. Part II addresses the interplay between neurologic complications and the surgical, medical, cardiac, and trauma of critical illnesses that most typically present in the ICU.

• Provides an essential neurocritical care overview for general neurologists
• Presents neurocritical care specialists with an update on severe neurological illness management
• Offers coverage of all the most frequent neurologic diseases requiring intensive care
• Includes chapters authored by global leaders in the field, providing the broadest, most expert coverage available on the topics discussed

Researchers, clinicians and advanced students in the fields of neurology, psychiatry, and clinical neuroscience