Wijdicks, Eelco F. M.

Abstract This single authored textbook serves as a comprehensive guide to manage all aspects of critically ill neurologic patients. The book is richly illustrated and with a succinct text closely edited for relevance. It accurately describes the immediacy and rapid-fire decisions that comprise the work life and environment of the neurointensivist. The Practice of Emergency and Critical Care Neurology follows patients from the very moment they enter the emergency department—where the neurologist makes on-the-spot decisions—to their admission to the neurologic intensive care unit—where mostly specialists in the neurosciences assume full responsibility for patient care. This book differs from conventional textbooks by specifically following the time course of clinical complexities as they emerge and change. Great emphasis is placed on management of unstable and deteriorating patients.