Evoked Potentials in the Operating Room and ICU
Case Print Section Listen Evoked potentials (EPs) are well established as diagnostic and monitoring tools in the operating room (OR) as well as the intensive care unit (ICU) setting. They…
Spine Trauma
Case Print Section Listen Our patient is a 23-year-old woman with no known medical history who presents after a rollover motor vehicle accident. During the accident, the patient had immediate…
Fever and Temperature Modulation
Case Print Section Listen A 46-year-old woman is brought back to the neurologic intensive care unit (NeuroICU) after undergoing coiling of a right middle cerebral artery aneurysm that had ruptured…
Advanced Hemodynamic Monitoring
Case Print Section Listen A 57-year-old man with history of hypertension and gastric ulcer presents after a sudden onset of severe headache followed by nausea and vomiting. The patient arrived…
Neurophysiologic Decision Support Systems
Introduction Print Section Listen The intensive care unit (ICU) of the future in which technology enables dramatic improvements to clinical care while reducing costs has been predicted since the 1970s,…
Management of Increased Intracranial Pressure
Case Print Section Listen A 38-year-old woman who is a tobacco smoker with no significant past medical history presents with sudden new-onset bifrontal headache. The patient describes sharp, constant frontal…
ICU Management of Brain Tumors
Case Print Section Listen A 52-year-old woman with no significant past medical history presents with a headache; she had a subsequent fall without loss of consciousness. Over the next few…
Subarachnoid Hemorrhage
Case Print Section Listen A 49-year-old man with history of hypertension and hyperlipidemia presents with a sudden onset of severe bifrontal headache followed by nausea. The headache, the worst headache…
Status Epilepticus
Case Print Section Listen A previously healthy 19-year-old woman is brought to the emergency department (ED) for a witnessed “convulsion.” She had suddenly stopped talking and stared into space in…
Acute Ischemic Stroke
Case Print Section Listen A 62-year-old man with no known prior medical history presents to the emergency department (ED) after being found by emergency medical technicians (EMTs) for reportedly being…
