Emergency Management in Neurocritical Care -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- Series Foreword -- Preface -- PART I: ACUTE MANAGEMENT OF NEUROLOGICAL EMERGENCIES -- 1 Hypertensive Emergency -- 2 Airway Management in the Neurological and Neurosurgical Patient -- 3 Traumatic Brain Injury and Intracranial Hypertension -- 4 Critical Care Management of Acute Spinal Cord Injury -- 5 Subarachnoid Hemorrhage -- 6 Acute Management of Cerebral Ischemia -- 7 Neurocritical Care of Intracerebral Hemorrhage -- 8 Acute Management of Status Epilepticus -- PART II: CEREBROVASCULAR CRITICAL CARE -- 9 Post-procedural Management of Patients with Aneurysmal Subarachnoid Hemorrhage -- 10 Care of the Neurointerventional Patient in the Neurointensive Care Unit -- 11 New Treatment Strategies in the Management of Large Hemispheric Strokes and Intracerebral Hemorrhages -- 12 Presentation and Management of Acute Cerebral Venous Thrombosis -- PART III: INFECTIONS OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM -- 13 Infections in the Neurocritical Care Unit -- 14 Diagnosis and Management of Bacterial and Viral Meningitis -- 15 Encephalitis: Presentation and Management -- PART IV: NEUROMUSCULAR COMPLICATIONS ENCOUNTERED IN THE INTENSIVE CARE UNIT -- 16 Practical Management of Guillain-Barre ́Syndrome and Myasthenic Crisis -- PART V: NEUROLOGICAL COMPLICATIONS AND CONSULTATIONS IN GENERAL INTENSIVE CARE UNITS -- 17 Metabolic Encephalopathies -- 18 Delirium and Sedation in the ICU -- 19 Neurologic Complications of Cardiac Surgery -- 20 Neurological Complications of Medical Illness: Critical Illness Neuropathy and Myopathy -- 21 Hypothermia: Application and Use in Neurocritical Care -- 22 Etiologies of Posterior Reversible Encephalopathy Syndrome and Forms of Osmotic Demyelination Syndrome -- PART VI: ACUTE NEUROIMAGING AND NEUROMONITORING IN NEUROCRITICAL CARE.

23 Application of MR Diffusion, CT Angiography and Perfusion Imaging in Stroke Neurocritical Care -- 24 Advanced Monitoring of Brain Oxygenation and Metabolism -- Index -- Colour Plates.