Neurointensive Care

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.​

• intensive care unit
• neuro-ICU
• neurointensive care
• patient safety
• patient safety standard

“The purpose is to provide an overview of the interaction between care for the brain and optimal care for other organs where multiorgan dysfunction may be present in ICU patients. … This is a remarkable contribution that balances the needs of critically injured organs outside the neurological system with the best brain care. … the authors provide superb, high-level guidance to trained critical care providers or senior ICU trainees.” (David J. Dries, Doody’s Book Reviews, December, 2015)

• Neurological Intensive Care Unit, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle (Saale), Germany

  Katja E. Wartenberg

• Department of Critical Care, Medinah National Hospital, Medinah Munnawarah, Saudi Arabia

  Khalid Shukri

• Department of Neurology, Southern Illinois University School of Medicine, Springfield, USA

  Tamer Abdelhak

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

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