General assessment and care of the new patient

• Verfasst von: Rieke, Klaus [VerfasserIn]
• Verfasst von: Ulatowski, John A. [VerfasserIn]
• Verfasst von: Einhäupl, Karl [VerfasserIn]
• Verfasst von: Hacke, Werner [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: General assessment and care of the new patient
• Verf.angabe: Klaus Rieke, John A. Ulatowski, Karl M. Einhäupl, Werner Hacke
• Jahr: 1994
• Umfang: 13 S.
• Fussnoten: Gesehen am 03.06.2025
• Titel Quelle: Enthalten in: Neurocritical care
• Ort Quelle: Berlin; Heidelberg : Springer-Verlag, 1994
• Jahr Quelle: 1994
• Band/Heft Quelle: (1994), Seite 3-15
• ISBN Quelle: 978-3-642-87602-8
• DOI: doi:10.1007/978-3-642-87602-8_1
• Datenträger: Online-Ressource
• Sprache: eng
• K10plus-PPN: 1927356199

Abstract

Advances in the diagnosis and treatment of neurological disease have recently led to a dramatic increase in neurocritical care units. As most patients with acute life-threatening neurological diseases have systemic disease, the critical care unit facilitates an interdisciplinary approach to patient care that involves neurology, neurosurgery, anesthesiology, and internal medicine. Patients should receive neurocritical care if they have signs of increased intracranial pressure, coma, or neurological disease associated with respiratory or cardiovascular failure. Other patients who may benefit from neurocritical care include those with subarachnoid hemorrhage (all grades), space-occupying hemorrhage or stroke, meningitis, encephalitis, status epilepticus, and progressive muscular weakness (especially involving the respiratory muscles; Table 1). Patients receiving thrombolytic therapy and plasmapheresis or those undergoing interventional neuroradiological procedures may also benefit from neurocritical care (high- or low-acuity monitoring).