Patients in the neurointensive care unit pose many clinical

challenges for the attending physician. Even experienced clinicians

occasionally arrive at the point where diagnostic, work-up, treatment,

or prognostic thinking becomes stymied. In daily practice, neurocritical

care pertains to
managing deteriorating patients, treatment of

complications but also end-of-life care assisting families with

difficult decisions. Part of the "What Do I Do Now?" series,

how to handle comparatively common clinical problems emergently. New to

this edition are cases on monitoring and prognostication. All cases

have been carefully revised, and new information, references, and

practical tables have been added. Neurocritical Care is both an engaging
collection

of thought-provoking cases and a self-assessment tool that tests the

reader's ability to answer the question, "What do I do now?"