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List of Abbreviations
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Learning Objectives and Core Competencies
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Errata
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Update
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Postreading Self-Assessment and CME Test—Preferred Responses
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Postreading Self-Assessment and CME Test
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Self-assessment and cme
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Brain Death/Death by Neurologic Criteria Determination
This article describes the prerequisites for brain death/death by neurologic criteria (BD/DNC), clinical evaluation for BD/DNC (including apnea testing), use of ancillary testing, and challenges associated with BD/DNC determination in adult and pediatric patients. RECENT FINDINGS Although death determination should be consistent among physicians and across hospitals, states, and countries to ensure that someone who is declared dead in one place would not be considered alive elsewhere, variability exists in the prerequisites, clinical evaluation, apnea testing, and use of ancillary testing to evaluate for BD/DNC. Con...
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Palliative Care and Shared Decision Making in the Neurocritical Care Unit
This article reviews the evidence on integrating palliative care into the care of patients with various types of serious neurologic illness, emphasizes the importance of palliative care in the neurocritical care unit, and suggests tools for clinicians to improve their communication skills and decision making. RECENT FINDINGS Palliative care is a holistic approach to medical care that aims to relieve physical, psychological, social, and spiritual suffering. It is both a medical specialty as young as neurocritical care itself and an approach to patient care by all clinicians who manage patients with serious illness. P...
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Neurologic Outcome Prediction in the Intensive Care Unit
PURPOSE OF REVIEW The burden of severe and disabling neurologic injury on survivors, families, and society can be profound. Neurologic outcome prediction, or neuroprognostication, is a complex undertaking with many important ramifications. It allows patients with good prognoses to be supported aggressively, survive, and recover; conversely, it avoids inappropriate prolonged and costly care in those with devastating injuries. RECENT FINDINGS Striving to maintain a high prediction performance during prognostic assessments encompasses acknowledging the shortcomings of this task and the challenges created by advance...
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Neurologic Complications in the Postoperative Neurosurgery Patient
This article discusses neurologic complications encountered in the postoperative care of neurosurgical patients that are common or key to recognize in the immediate postoperative period. The major neurosurgical subspecialty procedures (cerebrovascular neurosurgery, neuro-oncology, epilepsy neurosurgery, functional neurosurgery, CSF diversion, endovascular neurosurgery, and spinal surgery) are broadly included under craniotomy procedures, endovascular/vascular procedures, and spinal procedures. This article focuses on the range of complications inherent in these approaches with specific scenarios addressed as applicable. ...
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Acute Neurologic Manifestations of Respiratory Viruses
This article describes the most common respiratory viruses that have neurologic manifestations, with a focus on SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19. RECENT FINDINGS In vitro and in vivo studies have better elucidated the neurotropism of various respiratory viruses. Understanding host cell receptors that mediate viral binding and entry not only demonstrates how viruses enter host cells but also provides possible mechanisms for therapeutic interventions. Elucidation of SARS-CoV-2 binding and fusion with host cells expressing the angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2) receptor may also provide greater insights into its systemic an...
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Neuromuscular Disorders in the Intensive Care Unit
This article discusses the pathophysiology, presentation, diagnosis, treatment, and prognosis of common neuromuscular disorders seen in the intensive care unit, including Guillain-Barré syndrome, myasthenia gravis, and intensive care unit–acquired weakness. RECENT FINDINGS Guillain-Barré syndrome can have an excellent prognosis if patients are diagnosed early, appropriately treated, and monitored for complications, including respiratory failure and dysautonomia. Intensive care unit–acquired weakness increases overall mortality in patients who are critically ill, and distinguishing between critical illness myop...
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Seizures, Status Epilepticus, and Continuous EEG in the Intensive Care Unit
This article discusses the evolving definitions of seizures and status epilepticus in the critical care environment and the role of critical care EEG in both diagnosing seizure activity and serving as a predictive biomarker of clinical trajectory. RECENT FINDINGS Initial screening EEG has been validated as a tool to predict which patients are at risk of future seizures. However, accepted definitions of seizures and nonconvulsive status epilepticus encourage a treatment trial when the diagnosis on EEG is indeterminate because of periodic or rhythmic patterns or uncertain clinical correlation. Similarly, recent data h...
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Posterior Reversible Encephalopathy Syndrome and Reversible Cerebral Vasoconstriction Syndrome as Syndromes of Cerebrovascular Dysregulation
This article describes the causes, clinical and imaging features, management, and prognosis of posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome (PRES) and reversible cerebral vasoconstriction syndrome (RCVS), in which the underlying pathophysiology is related to reversible dysregulation of the cerebral vasculature. RECENT FINDINGS PRES and RCVS are descriptive terms, each bringing together conditions with similar clinical-imaging manifestations. Headache, visual symptoms, seizures, and confusion occur in both syndromes. RCVS is usually heralded by recurrent thunderclap headaches, whereas encephalopathy and seizures are ...
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