Author : Eelco F. M. Wijdicks
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 612 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Critical care medicine
ISBN : 9780195157291
The Clinical Practice of Critical Care Neurology by Eelco F. M. Wijdicks Pdf
This is a practical and accessible review of neurologic critical care in the intensive care unit is single-authored and thus cohesive. The emphasis is on management in day-to-day practice. For the thoroughly updated and expanded second edition, Wijdicks has added new algorithms on outcome prediction in the specific disorders, and five chapters on the organization of the intensive care unit, acute spinal disorders, management of common postoperative neurosurgical complications, and psychosocial issues, ethics, and withdrawal of life support. For quick reference in the ICU the most useful tables and figures have been extracted and reprinted in an accompanying pocket-sized booklet.