Treatment of the Critically Ill Patient with Myasthenia Gravis Myasthenia gravis (MG) is an uncommon disorder of immune pathogenesis that affects neuromuscular transmission and causes regional and generalized fatigable weakness….
Critical Care of Guillain-Barré Syndrome Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS), as it is commonly known, or acute inflammatory polyneuropathy, is the most frequent cause of acute and subacute generalized paralysis now that…
Hypoxic-Ischemic Cerebral Injury The cerebral effects of cardiac arrest are not strictly a neurological intensive care unit (neuro-ICU) problem; neurologists and intensivists are called on to give authoritative opinions regarding…
Intensive and Postoperative Care of Intracranial Tumors Although patients who have just been operated on for tumor occupy a large proportion of beds in many neurological intensive care units (neuro-ICUs),…
Subarachnoid Hemorrhage Subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) represents a small portion of cerebrovascular disease, but accounts for a significant amount of stroke morbidity and mortality. The annual incidence of nontraumatic SAH is…
Management of Nontraumatic Brain Hemorrhage The third most common cause of death in the United States is cerebrovascular disease, and 10% to 15% of strokes are intracerebral hemorrhages (ICH). There…
Critical Care of Acute Stroke The intensivist is in a position to make substantial contributions to the care of stroke patients. The problem of clinically serious and anatomically large stroke…
Head Injury Head trauma remains a major health predicament despite extensive preventive efforts. The magnitude of the problem can be appreciated by pointing out that approximately 2 million people suffer…
Neurological Complications of Critical Medical Illnesses There are numerous conditions encountered in intensive care that cause serious neurological dysfunction. Most are somewhat predictably associated with critical illness, or at least…
Postoperative Neurosurgical Care Postoperative cases account for a large number of neurological intensive care unit (neuro-ICU) admissions and in many centers there is a flexible relationship between neurosurgery recovery or…
