Neurologic Critical Care

Use of prophylactic anticonvulsants in neurologic critical care: a critical appraisal.

Seizures are commonly encountered in the setting of brain injury in neurologic critical care. Though seizure prophylaxis with the use of antiepileptic drugs is frequently utilized in variety of brain injury paradigms, it is often not based on evidence and is controversial. Significant difficulties arise from interpretation of supporting literature due to lack of definitions for early-vs.-late-s...

Neurologic Complications of Critical Illness

This book is appropriate for neurologists, surgeons, internists, anesthesiologists, intensivists, and nurses who manage or provide consultations for critically ill patients. It is a comprehensive and detailed reference of neurologic complications, and is helpful, well organized, and indexed. Pathophysiologic mechanisms are typeset differently throughout the text, which also makes for rapid refe...

Prognosis of neurologic complications in critical illness.

Neurologic complications of critical illness require extensive clinical and neurophysiologic evaluation to establish a reliable prognosis. Many sequelae of intensive care unit (ICU) treatment, such as delirium and ICU-acquired weakness, although highly associated with adverse outcomes, are less suitable for prognostication, but should rather prompt clinicians to seek previously unnoticed persis...

Neurologic Critical Care Acute secondary adrenal insufficiency after traumatic brain injury: A prospective study*

T raumatic brain injury (TBI) is a disorder of major public health importance. In the United States, TBI results in approximately 50,000 deaths annually (1) and remains the leading cause of disability among children and young adults (2). The fact that treatment strategies utilized in multiple recent clinical trials have failed to improve outcome after TBI (3) mandates that novel pathophysiologi...

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