Coagulation Disorders in the Neurocritical Patient
24 Coagulation Disorders in the Neurocritical Patient Pablo Schoon 1, Lilian Benito Mori 2 1 Director of Intensive Care Unit. Hospital Interzonal General de Agudos “Prof. Dr. Luis Güemes”. Haedo,…
Acute Renal Injury in the Neurocritical Patient
21 Acute Renal Injury in the Neurocritical Patient Daniel Agustín Godoy 1, José Luis do Pico 2 1 Neurointensive Care Unit. Sanatorio Pasteur, Catamarca, Argentina 2 Head Intensive Care Unit….
Nutritional Support in Critically Ill Patients
Figure 20.1. Schematic representation of the reactions to injury. 20.3 Assessment of Nutritional Status The use of artificial nutrition has generated the need for an effective method to assess nutritional…
Surgical Airway Management in the Neurocritically Ill Patient: Timing, Technique, and Complications
Figure 18.1. Schematic representation of cricothyroidotomy [8]. Commercial cricothyroidotomy kits are readily available and generally involve a small vertical incision followed by placing a needle through the cricothyroid membrane, passing…
Fluid Therapy in Acute Brain Injury
13 Fluid Therapy in Acute Brain Injury Gustavo Piñero 1 1 Neurological Intensive Care Coordinator. Intensive Therapy Service for Acute Municipal Hospital “Dr.Leonidas Lucero”, Bahía Blanca, Argentina 13.1 Introduction The…
Examination of the Critically Ill Neurological Patient
Vegetative state longer than 1 month is classified as a persistent vegetative state Minimally conscious state (MCS) Occurs in the setting of catastrophic hemispheric brain injury, with intact brainstem function…
Neuroscience Critical Care: Two Experts’ Point of View
Figure 1.1. Acute interdisciplinary ICU program. As the neuroscience ICU becomes established and clinical activity increases, the staffing model becomes key to continued growth and success. Comprehensive care, the goal…
Evaluation Scales in Neurocritically Ill Patients
5 Evaluation Scales in Neurocritically Ill Patients Jose M Dominguez-Roldan 1, Walter Videtta 2, Claudio Garcia Alfaro 1, Juana Maria Barrera Chacon 1, Modesto Romero Lopez 2 1 Hospital Universitario…
A Multiscale “Working Brain” Model
Fig. 5.1 Schematic of “working brain” model, showing structures involved in corticothalamic generation of EEGs and the brainstem-hypothalamus ascending arousal system (see section “Arousal State Modeling” for abbreviations), with some…
Computational Models of Closed–Loop Deep Brain Stimulation
2.3 Hz) of PD is significantly higher [73]. Second, the symptom severity may be more relevant to the neuronal firing patterns than to the firing rates of GPi [4, 8, 9,…
