Neurosonology in Critical Care: Monitoring the Neurological Impact of the Critical Pathology

Camilo N. Rodríguez · Claudio Baracchini · Jorge H. Mejia-Mantilla · Marek Czosnyka · Jose I Suarez · László Csiba · Corina Puppo · Eva Bartels

Nov 2021 · Springer Nature

About this ebook

This textbook addresses the classical use of Transcranial Doppler (TCD) and Transcranial Color-Coded Duplex Sonography (TCCS), focusing on the usefulness of neurological monitoring beyond classical acute brain injuries present in the daily intensive care medical practice. It encompasses a wide range of critical pathologies where neurological impact is part of clinical evolution, offering practical approaches for managing, application and interpretation of neurosonology to assist the physician to making real-time individualized decisions at bedside.

It is an academic guide developed and edited by international experts being a very useful resource in daily practice for intensivists, neurologists, neurosurgeons and other specialists involving in critical care.

About the author

Camilo N. Rodriguez, MD

Intensive Care Physician

University of Buenos Aires (UBA), Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Hospital Nacional Prof. Dr. A. Posadas, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Neurocritical care Committee – FEPIMCTI

Neuro-intensive care section – ESICM

Neuro-intensive care section - AMCI

Member of ESNCH

Claudio Baracchini MD, PhD, FESO

President of the ESNCH

Director of the Stroke Center and Neurosonology Laboratory,

Department of Neuroscience - University of Padua School of Medicine, Padova, Italy

Jorge H. Mejia-Mantilla, MD, MSc, FNCS

Intensive Care Medicine – Anesthesiology

Head of Neuro-ICU Fundación Valle del Lili, Cali – Colombia

President of Latin-American Brain Injury Consortium - LABIC

Neurocritical Care Section Director – AMCI

Marek Czosnyka, MD, PhD

Professor of Brain Physics Department of Clinical Neurosciences

Cambridge Biomedical Campus, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK

Jose I Suarez, MD, FNCS, FANA

Professor and Chief Neurocritical Critical Care

Director Precision Medicine Center of Excellence for Neurocritical Care

Departments of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Neurology, and Neurosurgery

The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

Baltimore, MD, USA.

Past President Neurocritical Care Society

Founding and Past Chair Neurocritical Care Research Network (NCRN)

László Csiba

President of Hungarian Neurological Society

Department of Neurology

Clinical Center

Debrecen University

Hungary

Corina Puppo, MD

Internal Medicine, Emergency & Critical Care Medicine

Transcranial Doppler Ultrasound Specialist, Intensive Care Unit, Hospital de Clínicas,

Universidad de la Republica School of Medicine, Montevideo – Uruguay

Researcher at the National Agency of Innovation and Investigation (ANII), Uruguay

Eva Bartels, MD, PhD

Educational Coordinator of ESNCH

Center for Neurological Vascular Diagnostics, Munich, Germany