The Brain of the Critically Ill Pregnant Woman is a volume in the Critical Care in Obstetrics series. This novel reference educates physicians, nurses, and all allied healthcare personnel on updates for caring for pregnant women with neurological compromise. The book's authors have gathered the best evidence-based material that is explicitly focused on severe neurological complications in pregnant patients and postpartum. Among the chapters, the book covers medical-surgical complications that any patient can present, such as head trauma and complications specific to pregnancy.
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Table of Contents
SECTION 1 Critical care1. Neurologic complications in the obstetric patient
SECTION 2 Neurologic monitorings
2. Intracranial pressure monitoring and pregnancy
3. Monitoring of cerebral oxygenation
4. Neuromonitoring in critically ill pregnant patients
5. Multinodal neuromonitoring
SECTION 3 Imaging
6. Computed tomography findings in critical neurological conditions in the obstetric patient
7. Cerebral angiography and neurovascular intervention: General considerations specific to cerebral angiography and neurovascular intervention in pregnant patients
8. Transcranial Doppler in pregnancy
SECTION 4 Encephalopathy
9. Hepatic encephalopathy during pregnancy
10. Wernicke encephalopathy
SECTION 5 Vascular disease
11. Acute ischemic stroke
12. General approach to neurocritical care in obstetrics: The brain of the critically ill pregnant woman
13. Thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura
14. Venous sinus thrombosis and pregnancy
SECTION 6 Neurological disease
15. Headache in pregnancy
16. Coma and brain death in pregnancy
17. Eclampsia
18. Central nervous system infections in pregnancy
SECTION 7 Weakness syndromes
19. Myasthenia gravis and pregnancy
20. Multiple sclerosis and pregnancy
21. Guillain-Barr� syndrome in pregnancy
SECTION 8 Trauma
22. Traumatic brain injury in critically ill pregnant women
23. Spinal trauma
SECTION 9 Neurosurgery in pregnant woman
24. Intracranial surgery
SECTION 10 Brain implications in cardiac arrest
25. Cerebral resuscitation from cardiac arrest
SECTION 11 The fetus
26. Fetal surveillance in the neurocritical pregnant patient
SECTION 12 Airway and mechanical ventilation
27. Mechanical ventilation in the brain-injured pregnant woman
28. Remote neurocritical monitoring of the critically ill pregnant patient
29. Highly infectious central nervous system infections
Authors
Javier Perez-Fernandez Medical Director, Critical Care Services Baptist Hospital of Miami, Florida, USA. Dr. Javier Perez-Fernandez serves as Medical Director of the Critical Care Services at Baptist Hospital of Miami. He is a Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine at Florida International University, Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine and Professor Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at Larkin University, Miami-Dade Florida. He is the Secretary-General of the World Federation of Intensive Care.Dr. Perez-Fernandez manages a large group of critical care physicians, South Florida Critical Care Services, overseeing the operations of seven ICUs with over 350 beds. He has been a regional and national recognized leader during the COVID-19 pandemic with multiple TV and media appearances and consulting services for several national and international organizations. He has been directly involved in the development of Rapid Response Teams, technology implementation and "open ICU� models. He has lectured worldwide and author of many original publications with the Society of Critical Care Medicine. Carlos Montufar Head of the Obstetrics Intensive Care Unit, Dr. Arnulfo Arias M Hospital Complex, Panama City, Panama. Dr. Carlos Montufar is the Head of the Obstetrics Intensive Care Unit of the "Dr. Arnulfo Arias M." Hospital Complex in Panama City, Panama. He is the creator and National Director of the Fellowship Program in Critical Care Obstetrics in Panama. He has written chapters in different texts on the subject of obstetric complications and obstetric intensive care. In addition, he has participated in clinical research studies, publishing papers in different International Medical Journals. Dr. Montufar had an important participation in the creation and structuring of the Fundamental Critical Care Support: Obstetrics course, endorsed by the Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM). He is a member of SCCM, and is designated as the International Ambassador of Society of Maternal Fetal Medicine (SMFM). Dr. Montufar has participated in countless international conferences as an exhibitor from 1997 to date. Jorge Hidalgo Professor and Head, Division of Critical care, Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital, Belize, Central America. Dr. Jorge Hidalgo is a Professor of Critical Care and the Head of the Division of Critical Care at Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital in Belize, Central America. He is the President Elect of the World Federation of Societies of Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine. He has won several awards with the highest recognition and the Director of the very prestigious ACP Review Course hosted by the Paraguay Society of Internal Medicine. Due to his outstanding contribution to the Society of Critical Care Medicine he received the Presidential Citation Award. And Global Safar Award, becoming the First Latin American Intensivist to get this Nomination. He is involved in numerous congresses and a well-recognized international speaker.
