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Essentials of Neurosurgical Anesthesia & Critical Care

Strategies for Prevention, Early Detection, and Successful Management of Perioperative Complications

  • Provides a comprehensive update on neuroanesthesiology and neurocritical care

  • Serves as a reference for medical practitioners involved in the perioperative care of neurosurgical patients

  • Features sections on specific diagnostic procedures and treatment options, concepts and applicable details of the available neurosurgical interventions and techniques, and mechanisms necessary to provide top of the line care for patients

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Table of contents (100 chapters)

  1. Preoperative Concerns of the Neuroanesthesiologist

  2. Fundamentals of Adult Neurosurgery/Neuroanesthesia

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 135-135
    2. Preparing for Anesthesia in Neurosurgical Patients

      • Melissa Brockerville, Pirjo Manninen
      Pages 137-142
    3. Basics of Neurosurgical Techniques and Procedures

      • Jennifer D. Sokolowski, Tony R. Wang, Kenneth C. Liu
      Pages 143-146
    4. Positioning the Patient for Neurosurgical Operations

      • Katherine O. Heller, Monica S. Vavilala, Irene Rozet
      Pages 147-151
    5. Next Level Communication

      • Debra A. Reeves, Haley Sands
      Pages 157-159
  3. Critical Situations During Anesthesia for Brain Surgery in Adults

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 161-161
    2. The “Tight Brain”: Cerebral Herniation Syndrome

      • Leslie C. Jameson, Paul D. Mongan, Daniel J. Janik, Tod B. Sloan
      Pages 163-167
    3. Massive Hemorrhage During Craniotomy: Emergency Management

      • Elizabeth Dryland, Audrée A. Bendo
      Pages 175-182
    4. Perioperative Challenges During Posterior Fossa Surgery

      • Martin Schott, Dieter Suhr, Jan-Peter A. H. Jantzen
      Pages 193-199
    5. Perioperative Challenges During Surgical Evacuation of Subdural and Epidural Hematomas

      • Walter M. van den Bergh, Anthony R. Absalom, Olaf L. Cremer
      Pages 201-206
    6. Perioperative Challenges During Cerebrovascular Surgery

      • Panagiotis Mastorakos, Daniel M. S. Raper, Kenneth C. Liu
      Pages 207-214
    7. Perioperative Challenges During Craniotomy for Space-Occupying Brain Lesions

      • Chanannait Paisansathan, Verna L. Baughman
      Pages 221-226
  4. Critical Situations During Anesthesia for Spinal Surgery in Adults

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 227-227

About this book

This comprehensive, evidence-based book is intended to serve as a reference for medical practitioners involved in the perioperative care of neurosurgical patients. Fundamental aspects of neuroanesthesiology and neurocritical care are thoroughly examined across 101 chapters, outlining key elements that are crucial to a care provider’s knowledge of the practice. These elements include specific diagnostic procedures and treatment options, concepts and applicable details of the available neurosurgical interventions and techniques, and mechanisms necessary to provide top of the line care for patients. Each chapter features definitive and distinct areas of this multi-specialty discipline, and is designed to guide the reader from problem to solution in situations that can arise in the clinical setting.

Essentials of Neurosurgical Anesthesia & Critical Care, 2nd edition is a problem-oriented approach textbook that will aid a wide variety of readers in handling day-to-day issues and developments relevant to the perioperative care of neurosurgical patients.  

  

 

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Anesthesiology, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, USA

    Ansgar M. Brambrink

  • Department of Anesthesiology, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, USA

    Jeffrey R. Kirsch

About the editors

Ansgar M. Brambrink, MD, PhD

E.M. Papper Professor and Chair

Department of Anesthesiology

College of Physicians & Surgeons

Columbia University Medical Center / NewYork Presbyterian Hospital

New York, NY 10032, USA

Jeffrey R. Kirsch, MD


Professor, Chair-Emeritus


Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine 


Oregon Health & Science University


Portland, OR 97239






Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Essentials of Neurosurgical Anesthesia & Critical Care

  • Book Subtitle: Strategies for Prevention, Early Detection, and Successful Management of Perioperative Complications

  • Editors: Ansgar M. Brambrink, Jeffrey R. Kirsch

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-17410-1

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-17408-8Published: 11 October 2019

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-17410-1Published: 27 September 2019

  • Edition Number: 2

  • Number of Pages: XXX, 671

  • Number of Illustrations: 55 b/w illustrations, 37 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Anesthesiology, Intensive / Critical Care Medicine, Neurosurgery, Neurology

  • Industry Sectors: Biotechnology, Engineering, Finance, Business & Banking, Health & Hospitals, Pharma

Buy it now

Buying options

eBook USD 89.00
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as EPUB and PDF
  • Read on any device
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  • Own it forever
Hardcover Book USD 119.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Durable hardcover edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

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