Neurosurgical Intensive Care

Neurocritical care as a subspecialty has grown rapidly over the last two decades, including fast-growing new techniques in neuromonitoring, neuroimaging, and various therapeutic tools.Neurosurgical Intensive Care by Javed Siddiqi is a focused, concise handbook that provides a quick review mainly for residents and fellows receiving training in neurocritical care, but also provides a useful refresher for other healthcare professionals providing care to critically ill neurosurgical patients. The book has 31 chapters with some changes in the table of contents and the addition of two chapters compared with the first edition. Neurosurgery faculty, residents, and fellows, most from the author ’s institution, edit all chapters with an additional contribution by one critical care physician. Of note, none of the authors are neuro-anesthesiologists or neurocritical care physicians, which may explain the strong focus toward neurosurgical diagnostic and therapeutic tools. As per the preface, the goal of the book is to emphasize the importance of understanding neurophysiology as the best approach to neuron rescue: “For the neurosurgeon involved in neurocritical care, decompression is still the mainstay of surgical intervention,” but “[w]hether our patients need open surgery or not , a nuanced understanding of neurophysiology is the best approach to neuron rescue.” The first few chapters address the clinical and diagnostic evaluation of patients in the neurosurgery intensive care ...

Source: Anesthesiology - January 17, 2018 Category: Anesthesiology Source Type: research