(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…
(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…
(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….
(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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 9 Case-finding and intervention outside of specialty settings Specialty alcohol clinical settings are an important focus of this book and are obviously an appropriate location…
