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In Neurotrauma and Critical Care of the Brain, leading clinicians present widely accepted guidelines and evidence-based practices for the management of patients with traumatic brain injury. Divided into five main sections, the book guides the clinician through the science, management, critical care, outcomes, and important socioeconomic issues relevant to patient care. Special Features: Offers the valuable team approach and recommendations of renowned surgeons, clinicians, rehabilitation specialists, and researchers Includes guidelines for injuries ranging from mild to moderate, severe, and penetrating, and for treating brain injury in children Covers the related intensive care issues of neurologic, pulmonary, cardiovascular, and infection management and nutrition and fluid control Reviews fundamental science concepts, including pathophysiology, monitoring and imaging, biomarkers and classification systems for brain injury Provides hundreds of concise summary tables and illustrations to help digest complex information Discusses ethics and important end-of-life issues With an integrated management approach to injury and rehabilitation that goes well beyond initial surgery, Neurotrauma and Critical Care of the Brain will enable neurosurgeons, neurologists, physicians in trauma, critical care, and rehabilitation medicine, and residents in these specialties to optimize patient care and outcomes. It is also useful as a guide for board exam preparation. Table of Contents Foreword                                   Preface                                   Contributors                                  I Introduction 1 Epidemiology                                Victor G. Coronado, David J. Thurman, Arlene I. Greenspan, and Barbara M. Weissman II Science 2 Pathophysiology                                M. Ross Bullock and Marinella Gugliotta 3 Biomarkers and Surrogate Markers                   Sylvia Bele and Alexander Brawanski 4 Noninvasive Monitoring                        Michael Rubin, Wengui Yu, Mark A. Agostini, Christopher J. Madden, and Ramon R. Diaz-Arrastia 5 Monitoring of the Brain: Pressures, Flows, and Brain Tissue Probes     Marek Czosnyka, Peter Hutchinson, Peter J. Kirkpatrick, and John D. Pickard 6 Classification Systems                     Marjorie C. Wang and Thomas A. Gennarelli 7 Introduction to Brain Injury Imaging              Beverly L. Hershey, Scott H. Faro, Pallav N. Shah, and Erin O’Connor 8 Endovascular Therapy                     Jeffrey P. Kochan III Management 9 Mild Brain Injury                   Vincent J. Miele and  Julian E. Bailes 10 Moderate Brain Injury          Shelly D. Timmons and John S. Winestone 11 Severe Brain Injury            Joshua E. Heller and Andrew I. R. Maas 12 Wartime Penetrating Injuries                     Rocco A. Armonda, Randy S. Bell, Samuel Critides, and Alexander H. Vo 13 Scientific Surgical Management                     Randall M. Chesnut 14 Pediatric Brain Injury                         John Ragheb and Ryan S. Trombly IV Critical Care 15 Neurological Critical Care                        Opeolu M. Adeoye and Lori A. Shutter 16 Pulmonary Critical Care                        Ubaldo Martin, Sheila Weaver, and Gerard J. Criner 17 Cardiovascular Critical Care                       Mustapha A. Ezzeddine and Adnan I. Qureshi 18 Nutrition                               Toshihiko Yanagawa and Rani Nasser 19 Infection                               Gregory Mayro, Rafik Samuel, and Bennett Lorber 20 Fluids/Electrolytes                           Jim Hitt and Jack Jallo V Outcome 21 Rehabilitation                             Shane D. McNamee, Treven C. Pickett, Sharon M. Benedict, and David X. Cifu 22 Prognosis                                     Rosalyn Nguyen, Ross D. Zafonte, and Heechin Chae VI Socioeconomics 23 Ethics: Life and Death Choices                           Paul J. Ford and Abhishek Deshpande 24 Medicolegal Issues                                 Frederick Levy and Nisha C. Wagle 25 Cost of Traumatic Brain Injury and Return on Helmet Investment in the United States Ted R. Miller, Eduard Zaloshnja, and Delia Hendrie Index