Introduction Neurocritical care monitoring generates enormous amounts of various kinds of data from multiple sources. The information obtained serves the purpose of detecting secondary brain insults and guiding the immediate…
Introduction Timely assessment and treatment of intensive care unit (ICU) patients is a major goal in intensive care. This requirement can be difficult given the shortage of available intensive care…
Introduction During the first decade of the 21st century, many major advances have revolutionized neurocritical care. These changes have been achieved mainly because neurocritical care now is regarded as a…
Introduction Neurocritical care originated from the principles of respiratory intensive care established during the poliomyelitis epidemic of the mid-twentieth century, evolving to a discipline that provides comprehensive medical and specialized…
Introduction Doppler ultrasonography is a technique to measure the velocity and pulsatility of blood flow within the intracranial and the extracranial arteries. Transcranial Doppler (TCD) ultrasonography is frequently used for…
Introduction Noninvasive monitoring of cerebral blood flow (CBF) among other aspects of neurologic function will add important tools to the armamentarium of the clinician. A noninvasive monitor could be applied…
Introduction Multimodality monitoring can be defined as the simultaneous collection of data from multiple diverse sources pertaining to a single patient coupled with the ability to view the data in…
Introduction Simulation: a situation or environment created to allow persons to experience a representation of a real event for the purpose of practice, learning, evaluation, testing, or to gain understanding…
“Monitors themselves do not save lives, but the insightful interpretation of the information derived from them can.” —Saul and Ducker Introduction Traumatic brain injury (TBI) in the United States affects…
Introduction The term medical informatics frequently is used to describe systems applied to hospital and physician office record keeping, operations, and regulatory documentation, such as electronic medical records (EMR), computerized…
