Neurologic consultations are essential to patient outcomes, not only providing diagnostic, therapeutic, and prognostic advice but also directing care to the patient.
Neurologic Complications of Critical Illness is the foremost guide for neurologists entering the intensive care unit (ICU). This fourth edition has been thoroughly updated, refreshed, and expanded in recognition of the vast number of changes in neurology and neurocritical care. In addition, every chapter provides a representative selection of the state-of-the art management and latest clinical innovations in critical care medicine.
As with previous editions, the book offers practical advice on dealing with coma and outcome after cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), failure to awaken after surgery, delirium, new onset seizures, generalized weakness, acute paraplegia, movement disorders and many other manifestations of a neurologic emergency such as complications after organ transplantation, neurologic complications of invasive procedures and devices, complications from cardiac surgery, traumatic brain, spine and peripheral nerve injury, and environmental injuries such as hypothermia and near drowning. Chapters include a wealth of helpful tables, precise algorithms, and a large, curated selection of neuroimaging. Each chapter has a section to reconcile theory and practice.
This edition offers new chapters on the interpretation of focal findings and acute movement disorders in critical illness, cancer immunotherapy and ethical dilemmas. This clinical text with dedicated coverage of all major neurologic illnesses will be helpful to a very wide audience of health care providers and any intensivist and general neurologist managing complex medical disorders, surgeries, and co-morbidities.
神經科諮詢對於病人的結果至關重要，不僅提供診斷、治療和預後建議，還指導病人的護理。《重症疾病的神經學併發症》是神經科醫生進入重症監護病房（ICU）的首要指南。本書的第四版已全面更新、刷新並擴展，以反映神經學和神經重症護理領域的眾多變化。此外，每一章都提供了重症醫學中最先進的管理方法和最新的臨床創新代表性選擇。
與之前的版本一樣，本書提供了有關昏迷及心肺復甦術（CPR）後結果、手術後無法甦醒、譫妄、新發作癲癇、全身無力、急性癱瘓、運動障礙以及許多其他神經學急症表現的實用建議，例如器官移植後的併發症、侵入性程序和設備的神經學併發症、心臟手術的併發症、創傷性腦部、脊椎和周邊神經損傷，以及環境傷害如低體溫和接近溺水等。本書的各章節包含大量有用的表格、精確的算法，以及大量精選的神經影像資料。每一章都有一個部分用於調和理論與實踐。
本版新增了有關重症中的局部發現和急性運動障礙的解釋、癌症免疫療法和倫理困境的章節。這本臨床文本專門涵蓋所有主要神經學疾病，將對廣泛的醫療提供者、任何重症醫師和一般神經科醫生在管理複雜的醫療疾病、手術和共病方面提供幫助。
Eelco F.M. Wijdicks MD, PhD, FACP, FNCS 是梅奧診所醫學院的神經學教授，創立了梅奧神經重症護理專科，並在羅徹斯特的聖瑪麗醫院的神經科重症監護病房擔任主治神經重症醫師。他是《Neurocritical Care》期刊的創始編輯，該期刊是神經重症護理學會的官方期刊。他被授予神經重症護理學會的榮譽會員。他同時也是醫學史的教授，並曾擔任國際神經科學史學會的會長。他擁有超過1000篇的研究論文、實踐指導方針、主題評論、書籍章節和社論。他創立了FOUR Score昏迷評分量表。他獨立或合著了20本有關神經重症護理的書籍，並有多個後續版本，還編輯了6本有關急診神經學的書籍。
