Contents:

Airway and Pain Management

Neuroanesthesia and Neurocritical Care

TIVA for Neurosurgery

Index

This book focuses on controversial issues in neuroanesthesia and neurocritical care that in general have been subjected to insufficient professional scrutiny. The book is in three parts, the first of which is devoted to topics relating to traumatic brain and spinal cord injury, such as brain tissue oxygenation, the role of biomarkers, and diagnosis of brain death. Aspects of airway and pain management are then addressed, covering, for example, airway management in an emergency setting, airway evaluation in the edentulous patient, and pain management in neurosurgery and after craniotomy. The final part of the book considers a wide range of other challenging subjects in the field of neuroanesthesia and neurocritical care. Throughout, much information is provided on the latest, state of the art management. The authors are acknowledged experts in the issues they discuss, and the book will be of interest for graduate and undergraduate students, residents, neuroanesthetists, neurointensivists, emergency medicine residents and specialists, fellows in neurocritical care and all those directly involved in the perioperative care of patients with head and neck pathology. Common terms and phrases: acromegaly acute air embolism airway management Anesth Analg anesthesia Anesthesiology anesthetic aneurysmal artery assessment associated autoregulation blood pressure brain death cardiac catheter cerebral blood flow cerebral perfusion cervical spine Clin clinical complications cranial craniotomy Crit critically ill decrease Dexmedetomidine difficult airway Doppler dose drugs edema effects endotracheal evaluation extubation fluid function glucose hemodynamic hypertension hypoglycemia hypotension hypoxia increase infusion insulin intensive care unit intracranial pressure intraoperative intravenous ischemia ischemic isoflurane Khan laryngeal mask laryngeal mask airway laryngoscopy metabolic mmHg monitoring nerve Neurol neurological neuroprotective Neurosurg Anesthesiol Neurosurgery Neurotrauma outcome oxygen pain perioperative pituitary posterior fossa postoperative prone position propofol PtiO2 pulmonary reduced remifentanil respiratory result risk sedation sepsis severe traumatic brain sevoflurane spinal cord injury stroke subarachnoid hemorrhage surgery surgical syndrome technique therapy tion tracheal intubation traumatic brain injury treatment tumor vasospasm venous air embolism ventilation