Comprehensive guide to diagnosing and treating patients with common critical care illnesses and seizures

Provides the latest technologies and treatments while clarifying contradicting literature in the field

Updated and expanded volume remains the premier resource on this challenging topic

Includes supplementary material: [...]

GENERAL SECTION.- Chapter 1: Status Epilepticus - Lessons and Challenges from Animal Models.- Chapter 2: Impact of Seizures on Outcome.- Chapter 3: Diagnosing and Monitoring seizures in the ICU: The role of continuous EEG for detection and management of seizures in critically ill patients, including the ictal-interictal continuum.- Chapter 4: Seizures and Quantitative EEG.- Chapter 5: Spreading depolarizations and seizures in clinical subdural electrocorticographic recordings.- Chapter 6: Multimodality Monitoring Correlates of Seizures.- Chapter 7: Management of Critical Care Seizures.- Chapter 8: Management of status epilepticus.- ETIOLOGY-SPECIFIC SECTION.- Chapter 9: Ischemic Stroke, Hyperperfusion Syndrome, Cerebral Sinus Thrombosis and Critical Care Seizures.- Chapter 10: Hemorrhagic Stroke and Critical Care Seizures.- Chapter 11: Traumatic Brain Injury and ICU Seizures.- Chapter 12: Brain Tumors and ICU Seizures.- Chapter 13: Global Hypoxia-Ischemia and Critical Care Seizures.- Chapter 14: Seizures in Fulminant Hepatic Failure, Multiorgan Failure and Endocrine Crisis.- Chapter 15: Seizures in Organ Transplant Recipients.- Chapter 16: Extreme Hypertension, Eclampsia and Critical Care Seizures.- Chapter 17: Infection or Inflammation and ICU Seizures.- Chapter 18: Electrolyte Disturbances and Critical Care Seizures.- Chapter 19: Alcohol Related Seizures in the Intensive Care Unit.- Chapter 20: Drug-Induced Seizures in Critically Ill Patients.- Chapter 21: Seizures related to illicit drugs and toxins.- Chapter 22: Seizures and Status Epilepticus in Pediatric Critical Care.