Neurocritical Care in Obstetrics: The Brain of the Critically Ill Pregnant Woman

Neurocritical Care in Obstetrics: The Brain of the Critically Ill Pregnant Woman is the first volume in the Critical Care in Obstetrics series. It's a novel reference to educate physicians, nurses, and all allied healthcare personnel caring for pregnant women with neurological compromise. The authors have gathered the best evidence-based material explicitly focused on severe neurological complications in pregnant patients and postpartum. Among the chapters, the book covers medical-surgical complications that any patient can present, such as head trauma and complications specific to pregnancy Includes obstetric concepts with updated knowledge of pathophysiology Offers best practice approaches and interventions regarding the fetus Explore the use of and effects of drugs in the pregnant patient and during nursing Chapters are written by authors with extensive clinical experience in neurocritical care and critical obstetric care INDICE: 1. Brain of the pregnant women: physiology changes 2. Monitoring the critical care women 3. Monitoring intracranial pressure 4. Monitoring cerebral oxygenation 5. Brain flow monitoring 6. Electrophysiologic monitoring 7. Multimodal monitoring 8. Neuroimaging 9. Magnetic resonance 10. Computed tomography 11. Cerebral angiography 12. Encephalopathies 13. Hepatic encephalopathies 14. Hypertensive encephalopathies 15. Wernicke encephalopathies 16. Strokes 17. Ischemic stroke 18. Hemorrhagic stroke 19. Thrombotic purpura 20. Venous sinus thrombosis 21. General neuro 22. Headache 23. Coma and brain death 24. Delirium 25. Eclampsia 26. Status epilepticus 27. Central nervous system infection  28. Weaknes syndromes 29. Myasthenia gravis 30 .Multiple sclerosis 31. Guillain barre syndrome 32. Trauma 33. Acute traumatic brain injury 34. Spinal cord injury 35. Neurosurgery  36. Intracranial surgery 37. Vascular intervention 38. Brain tumors 39. Neuro-anesthesia in pregnancy 40. Brain implication in cardiac arrest 41. Cerebral resuscitation in cardia arrest 42. The fetus 43. Fetal surveillance in the neurocritical pregnant patient 44. Delivery in the neurocritical patient 45. Mechanical ventilation consideration in the neurocritical care pregnant

• ISBN: 978-0-443-15205-4
• Editorial: Academic Press
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Fecha Publicación: 01/08/2023
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés