First Studies on Outcome
(1) Division of Critical Care Neurology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA Abstract The tools of prognostication in acute neurologic conditions have developed over several decades. This chapter discusses seven…
First Descriptions of Initial Management
(1) Division of Critical Care Neurology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA Abstract This chapter discusses the evolution of management of critically ill neurologic patients. This chapter discussed six crucial…
First Studies in Bioethics
(1) Division of Critical Care Neurology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA Abstract This chapter discusses two landmark studies that introduce bioethical questions in the intensive care unit. A historical…
The First Neurointensive Care Units
(1) Division of Critical Care Neurology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA Abstract This chapter reviews the beginnings of intensive care units and the history of neurosciences intensive care units….
First and Famous: Criteria and Qualifiers
(1) Division of Critical Care Neurology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA Abstract This chapter explains the selection of research papers that made an impact to the field of neurocritical…
Alcohol as a drug
Figure 2.1: Chemical structure of some alcohols. Pharmacology Alcohol is a colourless liquid at room temperature. Relative to water, it has a lower density, freezing point, and boiling point (Table…
Definitions of drinking problems
Figure 1.1: Drinking within the population. The areas are not accurate representations of the relative proportions of those exhibiting differing drinking behaviours because this varies among populations. Hazardous drinking Hazardous…
Social complications of drinking problems
html xmlns=”http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml” xmlns:mml=”http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML” xmlns:epub=”http://www.idpf.org/2007/ops”> Chapter 4 Social complications of drinking problems When problem drinkers are standing before them, clinicians can directly observe the problems that these patients might “carry with…
Causes of drinking problems
Neurological vulnerability Table 3.1 divides the factors that influence drinking problems into three levels, namely the societal, the family/community, and individual. This framework is an oversimplification in a number of…
Introduction, settings, and roles
The outermost layer of Figure 8.1 comprises informal influences on problem drinkers: the work colleague who advises that a career may be damaged if drinking is not stopped, the husband…
