Author Description

This new edition incorporates the progress of clinical medicine, including a large number of new therapies and clinical insights from various trials and series which have clarified many previously opaque problems. For established intensivists, neurologists, neurosurgeons, and emergency room physicians, the material presented is ment to serve as a guide for effective and thoughtful practice as synthesized by experienced neurointensivists. Neurologists, neurosurgeons, and anesthesia and the critical care physician who are intrigued by the nervous system and its disease should also find the text provides for them a basis for furthur study and clinical work.