Neurological problems on the ICU.

increasing input from neurologists, especially with regard to the assessment of hypoxic brain damage and the neurological complications of critical illness, organ failure and sepsis. In contrast, dedicated neurological and neurosurgical intensive care units (ICUs) in neuroscience centres tend to deal with the management of primary diseases of the central and peripheral nervous system which may cause encephalopathy, raised intracranial pressure (ICP), ventilatory, autonomic and bulbar insufficiency or profound neuromuscular weakness.1–4