The NeuroICU Board Review offers the ultimate preparation for neurocritical care board certification. It delivers a thorough overview of neurological disease states (pathology, pathophysiology, and therapy), neurosurgical management, critical care medicine (including medical, surgical, cardiac, and cardiothoracic critical care), as well as ethics and professionalism. This powerful review also includes realistic case vignettes and more than 700 questions and answers with detailed answer explanations to strengthen your understanding of critical care topics and prepare you for practice in the NeuroICU.

This comprehensive review is not only valuable for passing the neurocritical care boards, but also for reviewing neurocritical care topics found on board exams in neurosurgery, emergency medicine, neurology, and medical and surgical critical care. You will find this book is not just about the brain, as it also covers the complexities of all organ failures and general critical care topics.

• Complete coverage of every topic found on the neurocritical care board exam
• Questions were carefully selected to ensure they mirror the neurocritical care board exam in quality, difficulty, and content
• Realistic case vignettes show you how to apply principles to real-world clinical situations
• Valuable to trainees rotating through neurocritical care units, including neurology and neurosurgery residents, as well as fellows from other subspecialties who must be familiar with core neurocritical care topics
• More than 700 questions and answers with detailed answer explanations and accompanying images, illustrations, tables, and references

Contents

Chapter 1. Ischemic and Hemorrhagic Stroke
Chapter 2. Subarachnoid Hemorrhage
Chapter 3. Neurotrauma
Chapter 4. Epilepsy
Chapter 5. Neuromuscular Diseases
Chapter 6. Neurologic Infectious Diseases
Chapter 7. Toxidromes
Chapter 8. Inflammatory Diseases
Chapter 9. Neuro-nephrology
Chapter 10. Neuro-oncology
Chapter 11. Neuro-hematology
Chapter 12. Encephalopathy
Chapter 13. Neuropharmacology
Chapter 14. Neuromonitoring
Chapter 15. Neurointerventional Surgery
Chapter 16. Brain Death
Chapter 17. Prognosis in Neurocritical Care
Chapter 18. Vascular Neurosurgery
Chapter 19. Brain Tumors and Hydrocephalus
Chapter 20. Neurosurgical Emergencies
Chapter 21. Pulmonary Diseases
Chapter 22. Gastroenterology and Liver Diseases
Chapter 23. Renal, Infectious, Electrolytes, and Other General Critical Care Questions
Chapter 24. Intrathoracic Diseases
Chapter 25. Ventilation and Pulmonary Mechanics
Chapter 26. Effects of Critical Illness in the Surgical Intensive Care Unit
Chapter 27. Cardiovascular Diseases
Chapter 28. Renal Diseases
Chapter 29. Intra-Abdominal Diseases
Chapter 30. Infectious Diseases
Chapter 31. General Trauma, Hemorrhage, and Burn
Chapter 32. Neurocritical Care in the Surgical Intensive Care Unit
Chapter 33. Anesthesia in the Surgical Intensive Care Unit
Chapter 34. Cardiovascular Critical Care
Chapter 35. Ethics and Professionalism