Handbook of Neuroanesthesia

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Newfield, James E. Cottrell
Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2007 - Medical - 466 pages

Thoroughly updated for its Fourth Edition, this handbook is a complete, convenient, and practical guide to perioperative management of neurosurgical patients. In a quick-reference outline format, the book provides detailed instructions on anesthetic management during all neurosurgical and neuroradiologic procedures and on intensive care of neurosurgical patients and patients with head injury.

This edition covers new developments in interventional neuroradiology, treatment of cerebral and spinal cord ischemia, awake craniotomy, and therapies for children with central nervous system diseases. New material is also included on acute treatment of stroke, brain death, and management of brain-dead patients during harvest of donated organs.

 

Contents

Effects of Anesthesia on Cerebral and Spinal Cord
23
Neurophysiologic Monitoring M Sean Kincaid and Arthur M Lam
36
Cerebral Protection and Resuscitation Myrna I Morales Janet Pittman and James E
55
Management of Pain in the Neurosurgical Patient
73
Anesthetic Management of Head Trauma Takefumi Sakabe and Audrée A Bendo
91
Anesthesia for Supratentorial Tumors Nicolas J Bruder and Patrick A Ravussin
111
Anesthesia for Posterior Fossa Surgery Deborah J Culley and Gregory Crosby
133
Anesthetic Management of Intracranial Aneurysms
143
Pathophysiology David L Schreibman and M Jane Matjasko
187
Epilepsy Epilepsy Surgery Awake Craniotomy
197
Stephen Onesti and Elie Fried
216
K A Hamid
256
Interventional Neuroradiologic Procedures Shailendra Joshi Sundeep Mangla
296
Neuroradiology Deborah M Whelan Melissa A Laxton
314
Seth Manoach and Jean G Charchaflieh
414
Index
437

Ischemic Cerebrovascular Disease Ian A Herrick Miguel F Arango and Adrian W
173

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About the author (2007)

James E. Cottrell, M.D., is chair of the anesthesiology department at the SUNY Health Science Center in Brooklyn, N.Y. He has practiced clinical anesthesiology for nearly thirty years.

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