Written with a conversational tone and using a case-based approach, Neurocritical Care is a primer for physicians seeing patients in the neurointensive care unit, with a specific focus on interventions in acute neurologic disorders. An easy read for new physicians, residents, and medical students, it provides practical advice from the authors' seasoned experiences.

SECTION 1: ACUTE INTERVENTIONS 1.EXPANDING LOBAR CEREBRAL HEMORRHAGE 2. REVERSING AND RESTARTING ANTICOAGULATION IN CEREBRAL HEMORRHAGE 3. THE VERY FIRST PRIORITIES IN TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY 4. ACUTE SUBDURAL HEMATOMA WITH A TAXING POST OPERATIVE COURSE 5. CRANIECTOMY'S TRIAD OF COMPLICATIONS 6. GRAPPLING WITH ACUTE BACTERIAL MENINGITIS 7. SORTING OUT AND TREATING ACUTE ENCEPHALITIS 8. THE PRESENTING FEATURES OF AUTOIMMUNE ENCEPHALITIS 9. ESCALATING DYSPNEA IN ACUTE NEUROMUSCULAR DISEASE 10. LIFE-THREATENING COMPLICATIONS OF INTRAVENOUS THROMBOLYSIS 11. WHEN TO RETRIEVE A CLOT IN ACUTE STROKE 12. "WAKE UP"' MAJOR STROKE 13. RECOGNIZING AN ACUTE EMBOLUS TO THE BASILAR ARTERY 14.TIMING OF HEMICRANIECTOMY IN SWOLLEN ISCHEMIC STROKE 15. WORSENING CEREBRAL VENOUS THROMBOSIS DESPITE ANTICOAGULATION 16. ANEURYSMAL SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE: FROM GOOD TO BAD GRADE 17. DELAYED CEREBRAL VASOSPASM IN ANEURYSMAL SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE 18. NONANEURYSMAL SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE TURNING ANEURYSMAL 19. OPTIONS IN ACUTE SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION DUE TO CANCER 20. UNANTICIPATED PARAPLEGIA AFTER AORTIC REPAIR 21. WHEN STATUS EPILEPTICUS CANNOT BE CONTROLLED 22. WHEN BRAIN METASTASIS BECOME A NEUROCRITICAL EMERGENCY 23. THE SURGICAL URGENCY WITH PITUITARY APOPLEXY 24. ECLAMPSIA AND ITS NEUROLOGIC CONSEQUENCES 25. TARGETED TEMPERATURE MANAGEMENT AFTER CARDIOPULMONARY RESUSCITATION 26. SURVIVING CARDIAC ARREST BUT DISABLING TWITCHES 27. HYPERTENSIVE EMERGENCY AND BRAIN EDEMA 28. THE ELUSIVE RAPID PROGRESSIVE BRAIN DISEASE 29. IMMUNE CHECKPOINT INHIBITOR AND NEUROMUSCULAR DISEASE 30. NEUROTOXICITY OF CAR-T CELL THERAPY 31. FAILURE TO AWAKEN AFTER SURGERY 32. STUPOR AFTER BRAIN SURGERY 33. WHEN ANTIEPILEPTIC DRUGS MAY CAUSE HARM 34. INTRACRANIAL HEMORRHAGE AND LVAD SECTION 2: THE BASICS OF BRAIN MONITORING 35. THE CHOICE BETWEEN SPOT AND CONTINUOUS ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY 36. WHEN TO PLACE AN INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE MONITOR SECTION 3: CALLS, PAGES, AND OTHER ALARMS 37. ALERT WITH A FIXED AND DILATED PUPIL 38. SORTING THROUGH DELIRIUM 39. ANTIBIOTIC-ASSOCIATED TOXIC ENCEPHALOPATHY IN SEPSIS 40. ALCOHOL WITHDRAWAL WITH EXTREME AGITATION 41. ALCOHOL RELATED ACUTE NEUROLOGIC COMPLICATIONS 42. SUDDEN HYPOTENSION AND FEVER SPIKE 43. WHEN BLOOD PRESSURE IS TOO HIGH 44. ACUTE WHITE-OUT ON CHEST X-RAY 45. STORMING WITH SWEATING, FEVER, AND RIGID POSTURING 46. THE COMMON CARDIAC ARRHYTMIAS 47. DYSAUTONOMIA IN GUILLAIN-BARRÉ SYNDROME 48. DIFFICULT VENTILATOR WEANING IN MYASTHENIA GRAVIS 49. DECREASING SERUM SODIUM 50. INCREASING SERUM SODIUM 51. RISING AMMONIA IN LIVER CIRRHOSIS SECTION 4: PRINCIPLES OF PROGNOSTICATION 52. PROGNOSTICATION AFTER SEVERE TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY 53. PROGNOSTICATION AFTER ACUTE ISCHEMIC STROKE AND CEREBRAL HEMORRHAGE 54. PROGNOSTICATION AFTER CARDIOPULMONARY RESUSCITATION SECTION 5: LONG-TERM SUPPORT, END OF LIFE CARE, AND PALLIATION 55. DECISIONS IN PERSISTENT COMATOSE STATES 56. WHEN WITHDRAWAL OF LIFE-SUSTAINING TREATMENT IS CONSIDERED 57. BRAIN DEATH DETERMINATION: SLIP -UPS AND OTHER MISREADINGS 58. WHEN TO MENTION ORGAN DONATION SECTION 6: THE OTHER SIDE OF NEUROCRITICAL CARE: COMMUNICATION CONUNDRUMS 59. PATIENTS COMING IN AND GOING OUT 60. WHEN FAMILIES DO NOT AGREE WITH OUR APPROACH AND CARE

"[T]his is a superb introduction to a rapidly expanding field." -Doody's Health Sciences "This text is a worthwhile read, a ready reference, and a thought-provoking research starter that belongs in every hospital, NDT lab, and medical library."- The Neurodiagnostic Journal "In less than 350 pages, the authors cover central, peripheral, and autonomic nervous system dysfunction occurring in the intensive care unit setting. More than 40 cases are presented, each beginning with a brief clinical presentation..."-The Neurodiagnostic Journal

Eelco F. M. Wijdicks, MD, PhD, FACP, FNCS is Professor of Neurology at Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science and Consultant in the Neurosciences Intensive Care Unit at the Mayo Clinic Hospital, Saint Marys Campus, Rochester, Minnesota. Alejandro A. Rabinstein, MD, FAHA, FNCS, is Professor of Neurology at Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science, Consultant in the Neurosciences Intensive Care Unit, and Chair of the Division of Neurocritical Care and Hospital Neurology at Mayo Clinic Hospital, Saint Marys Campus, Rochester, Minnesota.

Selling point: Provides instruction on all major neurologic emergencies in a nutshell Selling point: Part of the "What Do I Do Now?" series which utilizes a case-based approach and a conversational tone Selling point: Both an engaging collection of thought-provoking cases and a self-assessment tool