NEUROINTENSIVE CARE. A CLINICAL GUIDE TO PATIENT SAFETY

This book provides guidance for physicians confronted with acute neurological crises in the context of patient safety centred practice standards. It highlights how the implementation of patient safety standards in the neurointensive care unit leads to better clinical outcomes and emphasizes the importance of utilizing appropriate resources, ensuring evidence-based practice is followed. Cost effectiveness, continuous performance improvement and the creation of a non-punitive culture are also discussed.
Neurointensive Care: A Clinical Guide to Patient Safety is aimed at physicians around the world caring for critically ill neurological patients either in the emergency department or intensive care unit, and may also be valuable for nurses working in these settings. Neurointensivists, neurologists, neurosurgeons, anesthesiologists, general intensivists, emergency physicians, and trainees dealing with neurological catastrophes will find this book of interest.
Feature:
- Pocket-sized survival guide for caregivers in neurointensive care units
- Facilitates safe practice in emergency situations and critical care of critically ill neurologic patients in neurointensive care units
- Written by international experts in the field.

Authors
- Katja E. Wartenberg, MD PhD. Co-Director of the Neurological Intensive Care Unit. Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg. Halle (Saale). Germany
Research interests: subarachnoid hemorrhage, intracerebral hemorrhage, hypothermia, large hemispheric stroke
Academic activities: previous chair of the international committee and board member of the Neurocritical Care Society, current secretary of the German Society of Neurocritical Care
- Khalid Shukri, MD FCCM. Senior Consultant Neuro-Critical Care. Dept Critical Care. Medinah National Hospital. Medinah Munnawarah. Saudi Arabia.
Research Interests: sepsis, critical care management, neurocritical care development
Academic activities: President of Transcontinental Elite Alliance for Intensive care Excellence; member of the World Sepsis Day (WSD) Steering Committee; Guideline Committee Survival Sepsis
- Tamer Abdelhak, MD. Director of Neurocritical Care at Departments Neurology and Neurosurgery. Associate Professor of Adult Neurology and Neurocritical Care. Southern Illinois University School of Medicine. Springfield, Illinois. USA
Research Interests: traumatic brain injury
Academic activities: Vice President of the North America region for the International Pan-Arab Critical Care Medicine Society, chair of the advocacy committee of the Neurocritical Care Society

Table of contents (21 chapters)
1.Patient Safety Standards in the Neuro-ICU
2.Airway Safety in the Neurocritical Care Unit
3.Mechanical Ventilation in the Neuro-ICU
4.Nutrition in Neuro-ICU
5.Monitoring in the Neurocritical Care Unit
6.Intracranial Pressure Monitoring
7.Postoperative Care in Neurooncology
8.Subarachnoid Hemorrhage
9.Intracerebral Hemorrhage
10.Patient Safety in Acute Ischemic Stroke
11.Cerebral Venous Thrombosis
12.Bacterial Meningitis
13.Brain Abscess
14.Seizures and Status Epilepticus in the Intensive Care Units
15.Traumatic Brain Injury
16.Patient Safety in Guillain–Barré Syndrome and Acute Neuromuscular Disorders
17.Acute Spinal Disorders
18.Care for Complications After Catastrophic Brain Injury
19.Neuroimaging in the Neuro-ICU
20.Brain Death
21.Ethics in the Neuro-ICU