Neurologic Complications of Critical Illness [Hardcover]

Eelco.F.M.Wijdicks (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 15, 2001 | ISBN-10: 0195140796 | ISBN-13: 978-0195140798 | Edition: 2

This second edition of the definitive volume on the diagnosis and management of neurologic complications during critical illness has been thoroughly revised and expanded to bring the book up-to-date. Important features include information on neurologic complications in organ transplant recipients, muscle and nerve injury in critical illness, status epilepticus, cerebral edema, multisystem trauma including cervical spine and traumatic brain injury, and prognosis. The second edition includes entirely new chapters on:
*Evaluation of coma focused on structural causes
*Neurologic complications in the critically ill pregnant patient
*Ethical issues and practical problems with withdrawl of life support
New material on:
*Pathophysiological mechanisms (set off in different type so that these sections can be read separately)
*Neuroimaging studies (including the addition of two pages of full color plates)
*Electrophysical examples including EEG, evoked potentials, and nerve conduction studies
The first edition (published under the title Neurology of Critical Illness by F.A. Davis in 1995) was highly praised as a concise, practical volume introducing this new and rapidly-evolving specialty that focuses on the care of patients in general medicine and sugical intensive care units with significant disease of the nervous system, either as a primary event or secondary to involvement of organs outside the nervous system. The book is intended for neurologists, intensivists, anesthesiologists, pulmonologists, neurosurgeons, neurology and ICU nurses, and transplant surgeons.

Editorial Reviews

Review

From Reviews of the First Edition:

"...chock-full of relevant information for the consulting neurologist or treating intensivist...This is a pleasure to read and is highly recommended. It should be of interest to all who deal with critical care neurology." -- Neurology

"...This book should be useful for anesthesiologists practicing critical care medicine, because it does place in one volume many clinical pearls concerning interaction of the neurologic system with critical illness...It should be part of every anesthesia department's library and part of the personal library of practicing critical care anesthesiologists." -- Anesthesia and Analgesia

"...the volume is well organized, thoroughly indexed, and practical...a valuable volume to have in the ICU for ready reference...an excellent reference for internists and neurology students." -- Annals of Neurology

"This book is highly recommended and should be available to all neurologists, neurosurgeons, intensivists, nurses, and other health care personnel involved in the care of critically ill patients." --The Canadian Journal of Neurological Sciences

"The second edition is a book that all trainees in neurology should read and indeed all of us should have available to us when we visit patients in an intensive care unit. The difficult questions that we are increasingly asked about diagnosis and prognosis will be readily answered by this book, which I firmly and unreservedly recommend."--N. Cartlidge in J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry

About the Author

Eelco F.M. Wijdicks is at Mayo Clinic and Mayo Foundation, Rochester, MN.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 415 pages
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA; 2 edition (December 15, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0195140796
• ISBN-13: 978-0195140798
• Product Dimensions: 10 x 7 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,989,833 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Eelco F.M.Wijdicks was born in Leiden, the Netherlands.He earned his MD from the University of Leiden, did his residency and PhD at Erasmus University in Rotterdam and became attending neurologist at University Medical Center Utrecht. He was a visiting scientist and research fellow at Neurologic-Neurosurgical Intensive Care Unit at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston.He joined the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine,Department of Neurology in 1992. He is a fellow of the American College of Physicians. He is Professor of Neurology,College of Medicine,Mayo Clinic, the Chair of the Division of Critical Care Neurology and currently practicing in the Neurosciences Intensive Care Unit at Saint Marys Hospital (Mayo Clinic Rochester).
He is the founding editor of the journal Neurocritical care, the official journal of the Neurocritical Care Society.He has over 500 research papers,book chapters,topic reviews and editorials to his credit.He is the senior author of the American Academy of Neurology guidelines on prediction of outcome in comatose survivors after cardiopulmonary resuscitation (2006) and the new guidelines on the diagnosis of brain death (2010). He single authored multiple books pertaining to the care of critically ill neurologic patients.
His books received the Commendable Book Award of the British Medical Association (2004) and the Honorable Mention book Award of the American Medical Writers Association(2008).

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5.0 out of 5 stars one of the best, December 25, 2007

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This review is from: Neurologic Complications of Critical Illness (Hardcover)

If you work in an neurological emergency or intensive care unit this book is needed. In clear written chapters all aspects you will face are worked through. It is like all books of this author a pleasure to read.