Overview
- Editors:
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Panayiotis Varelas
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Dept. Neurology, Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, U.S.A.
- Authoritative review of diagnostic and therapeutic issues of ICU seizures
- Up-to-date evidence-based data and recommendations
- Numerous tables summarizing drug interactions
- Expert opinion where evidence is nonexistent
- Neuroimages revealing common ICU seizure etiologies
- Discussion of the new anti-epileptics and their interaction with other ICU medications
- Multiple electroencephalographic recordings of ICU patients with seizures
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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- Daniel Friedman, Lawrence J. Hirsch
Pages 21-47
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- Panayiotis N. Varelas, Lotfi Hacein-Bey
Pages 49-118
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- Efstathios Papavassiliou, Panayiotis Varelas
Pages 137-156
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- Matthew A. Koenig, Romergryko Geocadin
Pages 157-178
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- Andrew Beaumont, Paul M. Vespa
Pages 179-201
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- Tarek Zakaria, Eelco F. M. Wijdicks, Greg A. Worrell
Pages 203-218
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- Errol Gordon, Michel T. Torbey
Pages 219-231
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- Wendy C. Ziai, Mohammed Rehman
Pages 233-261
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- Jenice Robinson, Jose I. Suarez
Pages 263-282
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- Zachary Webb, Panayiotis Varelas
Pages 283-306
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- Denise H. Rhoney, Panayiotis N. Varelas
Pages 307-340
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- Panayiotis N. Varelas, Marianna V. Spanaki
Pages 355-422
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Back Matter
Pages 423-431
About this book
The first edition of Seizures in Critical Care: A Guide to Diagnosis and Therapeutics, which appeared in 2005, filled an important need in the ar- mentarium of the neurological, neurosurgical, and medical intensivists who deal with seriously ill patients in the ICU setting. Unlike epilepsy, as it u- ally presents in the outpatient department, seizures in ICU patients are nearly always secondary phenomena that signify that something is seriously amiss in very ill patients with primary medical or surgical disease. The job of the int- sivist is to identify the cause of the seizure or seizures, examine the myriad of potential contributing factors, and provide appropriate management and tre- ment that takes all aspects of the patient’s illness into consideration. As in the first edition, Dr. Varelas and his associates recognize the extreme importance of prompt recognition, diagnosis, and sophisticated management of seizures in this group of seriously ill patients. Dr. Varelas has now recollected his group of contributors and produced a new and up to date compendium of what one needs to know in order to work effectively in this difficult and demanding area. A welcome addition to the new edition is the chapter by Friedman and Hirsch on the role of continuous monitoring in the ICU which is essential for the diagnosis and treatment of nonconvulsive seizures as these may be the most common form of seizures in this setting but are often missed in the evaluation of patients in stupor or coma.
Editors and Affiliations
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Dept. Neurology, Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, U.S.A.
Panayiotis Varelas
