Seizures in Critical Care A Guide to Diagnosis and Therapeutics /

This fully revised second edition of Seizures in Critical Care: A Guide to Diagnosis and Therapeutics is an essential guide for ICU professionals and neurologists. Incorporating the last five years of advances in the field, this invaluable title keeps the same structure as the previous edition, with...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Varelas, Panayiotis. (Editor)
Format: Electronic
Language:English
Published: Totowa, NJ : Humana Press : Imprint: Humana Press, 2010.
Series:Current Clinical Neurology
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Online Access:https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-60327-532-3
Table of Contents:
  • Presentation and pathophysiology of seizures in the Critical Care environment: an overview
  • Seizure monitoring in the ICU
  • Stroke and Critical Care seizures
  • Traumatic Brain Injury and seizures in the ICU
  • Brain Tumors and ICU seizures
  • Global Hypoxia-Ischemia and Critical Care Seizures
  • Seizures in Renal and Hepatic Failure and Endocrine Disease
  • Seizures in Organ Transplant Recipients
  • Extreme Hypertension, Eclampsia and Critical Care Seizures
  • Infection or Inflammation and ICU seizures
  • Electrolyte Disturbance and Critical Care Seizures
  • Alcohol Related Seizures in the Intensive Care Unit
  • Drugs Used for the Critically Ill inducing Critical Care Seizures
  • Critical Care seizures related to illicit drugs and toxins
  • Management of status epilepticus and critical care seizures.