The Clinical Practice of Critical Care Neurology

by Eelco F.M. Wijdicks

This comprehensive and authoritative text provides guidance on problem-solving for the neurologist faced with treating acute neurologic disorders. Presented in four parts, the text begins with a discussion of the broad spectrum of basic management issues from pain management to airway management, nursing care, and physical therapy. A detailed Part II discusses monitoring devices and diagnostic procedures. Part III, organized by disorder, discusses common neurologic critical care using a standardized approach. Topics such as Guillain-Barre syndrome, brain death, acute bacterial meningitis, and cerebral venous thrombosis are covered in depth. The book concludes with a practical section on management of systemic complications in critically ill neurologic patients.

419 pages, Hardcover

First published July 1, 1997

About the author

Eelco Wijdicks is Professor of Neurology at Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester Minnesota, and Associate Professor of the History of Medicine. He has written on film in Neurology, JAMA Neurology, Neurology Today, The Lancet Neurology and Mayo Clinic Proceedings. His book Neurocinema: When Film Meets Neurology was published in 2015.