This comprehensive, evidence-based book is intended to serve as a reference for medical practitioners involved in the perioperative care of neurosurgical patients. Fundamental aspects of neuroanesthesiology and neurocritical care are thoroughly examined across 101 chapters, outlining key elements that are crucial to a care provider's knowledge of the practice. These elements include specific diagnostic procedures and treatment options, concepts and applicable details of the available neurosurgical interventions and techniques, and mechanisms necessary to provide top of the line care for patients. Each chapter features definitive and distinct areas of this multi-specialty discipline, and is designed to guide the reader from problem to solution in situations that can arise in the clinical setting. Essentials of Neurosurgical Anesthesia & Critical Care, 2nd edition is a problem-oriented approach textbook that will aid a wide variety of readers in handling day-to-day issues and developments relevant to the perioperative care of neurosurgical patients.

This issue of Medical Clinics covers the current best practices surrounding the perioperative management of patients with chronic diseases. Guest edited by Jeffrey Kirsch and Ansgar Brambrink, the topics covered will include patients with pacemakers, patients with endocrine disease, immunocompromised patients, patients with heart disease, patients with renal disease, and more.

This issue of Anesthesiology Clinics provides essential updates in neurosurgical anesthesia. Topics include anesthesia for endovascular neurosurgery; interventional neuroradiology; neuroimaging; anesthetic management of patients with acute stroke; perioperative management of pediatric patients; anesthetic neurotoxicity; airway management in neuroanesthesiology; anesthetic considerations for awake craniotomy for epilepsy; perioperative uses of trans cranial perfusion monitoring; monitoring and introaoperative management of elevated ICP and decompressive craniectomy; electrophysiologic monitoring in neurosurgery; traumatic brain injury; perioperative pain management in the neurosurgical patient; controversies in neurosciences critical care; sleep and mechanisms of anesthesia; and impacts on outcome after neuroanesthesia.

Gerade in der Versorgung von Traumapatienten ist haufig die Entscheidung zwischen einer Allgemeinanasthesie oder einem Regionalanasthesieverfahren zu fallen, da die Unfallmechanismen und Patientengruppen sehr unterschiedlich sind.

- Besonderheiten in der Traumachirurgie aus anasthesiologischer Sicht

- Alle Regionalanasthesieverfahren Schritt fur Schritt beschrieben

- Komplikationen bei einzelnen Verfahren

- Extrakapitel: Kinder, alte Menschen, Polytrauma, postoperative Schmerztherapie

- Zum Nachschlagen: Ubersicht uber chirurgische Indikationen und Wahl des Anasthesieverfahrens

- Tabellen zu Vor- und Nachteilen der Anasthesieverfahren

- Beschreibung typischer Eingriffe aus chirurgischer und anasthesiologischer Sicht

- Tipps zur Differenzialindikation

Ein praktischer Leitfaden fur Anasthesisten, Orthopaden und Unfallchirurgen fur ihre tagliche Arbeit."