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Fatal Hemorrhage Complicating Intracranial Stenting After Failed Thrombectomy for Intracranial Atherosclerotic Stenosis in a Patient with Moderate Stroke: Risk Factors for Hemorrhagic Transformation, Red Flags, and Lessons Learned
Most large vessel occlusions (LVOs) are secondary to emboli of cardiac or cervical artery origin. Current stent retrieval and aspiration thrombectomy...
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Traumatic Brain Injury in Pregnancy
Traumatic brain injury may cause significant morbidity and mortality in the pregnant trauma patient. Although there are minor differences, the...
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The Central Role of Specialized Neurocritical Care Teams: Standards of Neurologic Critical Care Units
Intensive care units evolved over the past century to become an integral part of the hospital system. Intensivists provide care for the most...
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Clinical and Bioethical Perspective on Brain Death, Organ Donation, and Family Communication
The concept of brain death emerged about 60 years ago, when the development of ventilators and other intensive care unit technologies allowed...
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Multiple Trauma Management: Treatment of Abdominal Injury in Combination with Trauma Brain Injury
Patients with combined head and abdominal trauma present unique challenges to the trauma team, namely in how to prioritize injuries, determine...
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Sedation, Pain, and Delirium in Patients with Traumatic Brain Injury
The objectives of sedation/analgesia in patients with severe traumatic brain injury (TBI) are focused on preventing alterations in brain perfusion...
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Temperature Control and the Role of Therapeutic Hypothermia in Traumatic Brain Injury
Currently there are limited therapeutic interventions that have been reported to improve functional outcomes in patients with traumatic brain injury...
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Out-of-Hospital Management of Traumatic Brain Injury
The out-of-hospital management of patients with suspected traumatic brain injury should focus on initial management of airway, breathing, and...
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Infection Management in the Neurocritical Care Setting
Central nervous system infections are frequently seen in patients with penetrating head trauma or neurosurgical procedures or instrumentation....
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Seizure: Prophylaxis and Treatment in Acute Brain Injury
Prophylaxis for post-traumatic seizures is a current practice to avoid the morbidity and potential secondary brain injury associated with...
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The Day I Thought I Should Be Prime Minister of Canada
Here we touch on some of the manic episodes that Ben went through in the days that followed some of his programming sessions. It is a possible side...
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The Coming Wave
The chapter begins by giving our view as to why neurodegenerative diseases contribute to the rising tide of brain diseases that are swee** across...
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Intracranial Pressure Management: The Stepwise Approach
Intracranial pressure (ICP) monitoring and interventions to decrease ICP are routinely used in patients with severe traumatic brain injury (sTBI)....
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Neuroendocrine Dysfunction After TBI
Post-traumatic hypopituitarism (PTHP) is known to occur after many cases of traumatic brain injury (TBI), and it may contribute to cognitive and...
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Interactions Between Volumes, Flows and Pressures in the Brain: Intracranial Pressure, Cerebral Perfusion Pressure, Cerebral Autoregulation and the Concept of Compensatory Reserve
The incidence of traumatic brain injury (TBI) has been increasing globally and is estimated at 27–69 million of new cases per year. It remains the...
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Long-Term Outcome and the Role of Neurorehabilitation After Severe Traumatic Brain Injury
Successful cognitive and functional outcomes following the stabilization of patients with severe traumatic brain injury (TBI) require longitudinal...
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Brain Conquistadors
We begin this chapter with a discussion of some key takeaways from the ADPD conference held in Lisbon in 2019. Included in this is a guide for...
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The Three Pillars of DBS: The First Pillar-Finding a Good DBS Neurologist
We introduce the concept of the three pillars of DBS and mention why it is important that candidates for DBS have all three. Then we talk about the...
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Molecular Biomarkers Affecting Moyamoya Disease
Although the pathogenetic pathway of moyamoya disease (MMD) remains unknown, studies have indicated that variations in the RING finger protein RNF...
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Management of Low and High Grades Spondylolisthesis
Spondylolisthesis is defined as the displacement or misalignment of the vertebral bodies one on top of the other. It comes from the Greek spondlylos,...