This book provides guidance for physicians confronted with acute neurological crises in the context of patient safety centred practice standards. It highlights how the implementation of patient safety standards in the neurointensive care unit leads to better clinical outcomes and emphasizes the importance of utilizing appropriate resources, ensuring evidence-based practice is followed. Cost effectiveness, continuous performance improvement and the creation of a non-punitive culture are also discussed.
Neurointensive Care: A Clinical Guide to Patient Safety is aimed at physicians around the world caring for critically ill neurological patients either in the emergency department or intensive care unit, and may also be valuable for nurses working in these settings. Neurointensivists, neurologists, neurosurgeons, anesthesiologists, general intensivists, emergency physicians, and trainees dealing with neurological catastrophes will find this book of interest.
About the Author:
Katja E. Wartenberg, MD PhD
Co-Director of the Neurological Intensive Care Unit
Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
Halle (Saale)
Germany
Research interests: subarachnoid hemorrhage, intracerebral hemorrhage, hypothermia, large hemispheric stroke
Academic activities: previous chair of the international committee and board member of the Neurocritical Care Society, current secretary of the German Society of Neurocritical Care
Khalid Shukri, MD FCCM
Senior Consultant Neuro-Critical Care
Dept Critical Care
Medinah National Hospital
Medinah Munnawarah
Saudi Arabia
Research Interests: sepsis, critical care management, neurocritical care development
Academic activities: President of Transcontinental Elite Alliance for Intensive care Excellence; member of the World Sepsis Day (WSD) Steering Committee; Guideline Committee Survival Sepsis
Tamer Abdelhak, MD
Director of Neurocritical Care at Departments Neurology and Neurosurgery
Associate Professor of Adult Neurology and Neurocritical Care
Southern Illinois University School of Medicine
Springfield, Illinois
USA
Research Interests: traumatic brain injury
Academic activities: Vice President of the North America region for the International Pan-Arab Critical Care Medicine Society, chair of the advocacy committee of the Neurocritical Care Society
