Neurology (Neurocritical Care/Neuro Trauma)

Emerging subspecialties in neurology: neurocritical care.

Asma Zakaria, MD J. Javier Provencio, MD George A. Lopez, MD, PhD Historically, neurology has been a primarily outpatient specialty.1 The advent of modern neurosurgical techniques, as well as more elegant means of artificial ventilation in the 1960s, brought increasing numbers of neurologic patients to the intensive care units (ICU). Although these patients were primarily managed by medical and...

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Neurology and Trauma: Impact and Implications

As reported in Afifi, Asmundson, Taylor and Jang (2010), lifetime prevalence rates range from 64% to 90% for experiences of trauma and 1.4% to 11.2 % for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Although the majority of the population will be affected by trauma at some point in their life, the impact of these experiences will vary depending on the nature of the trauma, person and family characteri...

Emerging subspecialties in neurology: building a career and a field: pediatric neurocritical care.

Kerri L. LaRovere, MD James J. Riviello, Jr., MD The specialty of neurocritical care (NCC) has evolved rapidly and has an exciting future. The current neurologic intensive care units (NICUs) were born in the 1960s as a collaborative effort among the various subspecialists caring for patients with neurologic illnesses in multidisciplinary intensive care units (ICUs). The first dedicated NICUs ap...

Neurocritical care update.

This update comprises six important topics under neurocritical care that require reevaluation. For post-cardiac arrest brain injury, the evaluation of the injury and its corresponding therapy, including temperature modulation, is required. Analgosedation for target temperature management is an essential strategy to prevent shivering and minimizes endogenous stress induced by catecholamine surge...