Neurologic Emergencies, An Issue of Neurologic Clinics
- 1st Edition, Volume 39-2 - May 12, 2021
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Editors: Joseph D. Burns, Anna M. Cervantes-Arslanian
- Language: English
- Hardback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 8 3 5 6 4 - 0
This issue of Neurologic Clinics, guest edited by Drs. Joseph D. Burns and Anna M. Cervantes-Arslanian, will focus on Neurologic Emergencies. This issue is one of four selected… Read more
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Request a sales quoteThis issue of Neurologic Clinics, guest edited by Drs. Joseph D. Burns and Anna M. Cervantes-Arslanian, will focus on Neurologic Emergencies. This issue is one of four selected each year by series consulting editor, Dr. Randolph W. Evans. Topics include—but are not limited to—Coma and depressed level of alertness; Post-arrest Neuroprotection; Headache Emergencies; Acute dizziness, vertigo, and unsteadiness; Neuro-ophthalmologic emergencies; Intracerebral hemorrhage; Acute ischemic stroke; Seizures and status epilepticus; Movement disorders emergencies; Neuromuscular respiratory failure; Neuroinfectious disease emergencies; Severe traumatic brain injury; Acute myelopathy; Neuro-oncologic emergencies; Autoimmune neurologic emergencies; Brain herniation and intracranial hypertension; Aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage; Anesthesiology considerations in neurological emergencies; Neurological emergencies during the COVID pandemic; Neurocritical care and the COVID pandemic; and Neurologic Emergencies during Pregnancy.
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Contributors
- Forthcoming Issues
- Preface
- Acute Coma
- Key points
- Definition
- Basic pathophysiologic considerations
- Emergency evaluation and management
- Diagnostic testing
- Treatment
- Prognosis
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Neuromonitoring After Cardiac Arrest: Can Twenty-First Century Medicine Personalize Post Cardiac Arrest Care?
- Key points
- Introduction
- Pathophysiology
- Future directions
- Summary
- Conclusions
- Clinics care points
- Brain Herniation and Intracranial Hypertension
- Key points
- Introduction
- Clinical and radiographic signs of elevated intracranial pressure and brain herniation
- Spontaneous intracranial hypotension and herniation
- Medical treatment of intracranial hypertension
- Surgical treatment of intracranial hypertension
- Special considerations
- Future directions
- Anesthesia Considerations in Neurological Emergencies
- Key points
- Introduction
- Airway management
- Anesthetic induction
- Ventilation
- Anesthesia and sedation
- Pharmacology of common anesthetic and sedative agents
- Elevated intracranial pressure and/or cerebral herniation
- Acute neuromuscular respiratory failure
- Acute ischemic stroke
- Acute cervical spinal cord injury
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Neuromuscular Respiratory Failure
- Key points
- Introduction
- Central component of mechanical respiratory failure
- Peripheral component of mechanical respiratory failure
- Patient with an acute neuromuscular emergency
- Guillain-Barré syndrome and related disorders
- Myasthenia gravis in the intensive care unit
- Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
- Critical illness neuromyopathy
- Summary
- Headache Emergencies
- Key points
- Introduction
- The role of history and neurologic examination
- Thunderclap headache
- Positional headache
- Headache with abnormal examination
- Special populations
- Summary
- Key clinical points
- Clinics care points
- Acute Dizziness, Vertigo, and Unsteadiness
- Key points
- Introduction
- Neuroanatomy
- Cause
- Diagnostic approach
- Treatment
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Emergency Care of Patients with Acute Ischemic Stroke
- Key points
- Introduction
- Prehospital considerations
- Initial evaluation in the emergency department
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Intracerebral Hemorrhage: Advances in Emergency Care
- Key points
- Measures aimed at decreasing the risk of hematoma expansion
- Measures aimed at minimizing the local effects of the hematoma in the brain parenchyma
- Measures aimed at enhancing hematoma resolution
- Clinics care points
- Aneurysmal Subarachnoid Hemorrhage
- Key points
- Introduction
- Evaluation
- Initial management
- Aneurysm treatment
- Critical care management
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Blunt and Penetrating Severe Traumatic Brain Injury
- Key points
- Introduction
- Part 1: prehospital management
- Part 2: emergency department/trauma bay management
- Part 3: intensive care/inpatient management
- Part 4: future directions
- Summary
- Acute Traumatic Spinal Cord Injury
- Key points
- Introduction
- Epidemiology
- Anatomy and pathophysiology
- Management
- Imaging and diagnostic testing
- Surgical management
- Medical management
- Subacute to chronic management
- Latest therapies
- Clinical trials
- Summary
- Clinical care points
- Acute Myelopathy: Vascular and Infectious Diseases
- Key points
- Acute vascular myelopathy
- Acute infectious myelopathy
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Evaluation and Management of Seizures and Status Epilepticus
- Key points
- Introduction
- Background
- Status epilepticus treatment approach and mitigating complications
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Neuro-Oncologic Emergencies
- Key points
- Introduction
- Neoplastic emergencies
- Treatment-related neurologic emergencies
- Prognostication in neuro-oncologic emergencies
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Neuroinfectious Disease Emergencies
- Key points
- Introduction
- Meningitis
- Infectious intracranial mass lesions
- Neurotoxin syndromes
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Autoimmune Neurologic Emergencies
- Key points
- Autoimmune and paraneoplastic encephalitis
- Summary
- Movement Disorder Emergencies
- Key points
- Severe neurologic decompensation in the setting of nonneurological illness in patients with synucleinopathies
- Acute movement disorders
- Clinics care points
- Neuro-Ophthalmic Emergencies
- Key points
- Introduction
- Acute vision loss
- Diplopia
- Summary
- Neurological Emergencies During Pregnancy
- Key points
- Introduction
- Approach to neurologic symptoms in pregnancy
- Neurovascular disorders
- Seizures
- Status epilepticus
- Autoimmune
- Rare causes of neurologic emergencies related to pregnancy
- Special circumstances in pregnancy
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Disclosure
- Neurologic Emergencies during the Coronavirus Disease 2019 Pandemic
- Key points
- Considerations for managing acute stroke during the pandemic
- Coronavirus disease 19–associated cerebrovascular disease
- Considerations for managing epilepsy during the pandemic
- Coronavirus disease 19–associated seizures and status epilepticus
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Edition: 1
- Volume: 39-2
- Published: May 12, 2021
- Imprint: Elsevier
- No. of pages: 240
- Language: English
- Hardback ISBN: 9780323835640
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Joseph D. Burns
Affiliations and expertise
Director of Neurocritical Care, Lahey Hospital and Medical Center
Associate Professor of Neurology and Neurosurgery, Tufts University School of MedicineAC
Anna M. Cervantes-Arslanian
Affiliations and expertise
Clinical Vice Chair, Director of Neurocritical Care
Assistant Professor of Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Medicine (ID)
Boston University School of Medicine and Boston Medical Center