Medical Management of Neurosurgical Patients

Emerging as a new sub-specialization within the hospitalist community, the neurosurgery hospitalist provides preoperative risk stratification, advises on managing pre- and postoperative complications, and helps doctors make decisions about when to involve specialists other than neurosurgeons. This collaborative approach to the neurosurgery patient has been shown to offer effective care since hospitalists can be better attuned than specialists to multiple medical problems that most patients have.
Medical Management of Neurosurgical Patients is a first of its kind textbook providing a standardized source of information for neurosurgery hospitalists in order to establish a common ground and improve their knowledge and training. The work will focus on management of CNS infections, management of bleeding in the context of CNS surgery (a potentially catastrophic complication), management of sodium and blood glucose levels including steroid-induced hyperglycemia, perioperative pain control, and management of pressure injuries and rehabilitation in the context of CNS injury.

TABLE OF CONTENTS
1. COMMON NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES
Kevin Hines, Stavropoula Tjoumakaris, Pascal M. Jabbour, Robert H. Rosenwasser and M. Reid Gooch
2. PRE-OPERATIVE EVALUATION OF NEUROSURGICAL PATIENTS
Aditya Munshi and Geno Merli
3. MEDICAL MANAGEMENT OF PATIENTS WITH SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE OR INTRACRANIAL HEMORRHAGE AND INCREASED INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE
Ahmad Sweid, Pascal M. Jabbour, Sage P. Rahm, Stavropoula Tjoumakaris, Michael R. Gooch, and Robert H. Rosenwasser
4. ROLE OF HOSPITAL MEDICINE IN MANAGEMENT OF INTRACRANIAL BRAIN TUMORS
Donald Y. Ye, Thana Theofanis, Tomas Garzon-Muvdi and James J. Evans
5. ANTIEPILEPTIC MEDICATION USE IN NEUROSURGICAL PATIENTS
Megan Margiotta and Timothy Ambrose
6. ACUTE SPINAL CORD INJURY
Geoffrey Stricsek, Omaditya Khanna, Alexandra Emes and James Harrop
7. MANAGEMENT OF BLEEDING DISORDERS IN THE NEUROSURGICAL PATIENT
Vedavyas Gannamani and Sanaa Rizk
8. FEVER IN THE NEUROSURGICAL PATIENT
Rakhshanda Akram, Crystal Benjamin, Linda Mwamuka and Katherine A. Belden
9. DIAGNOSIS AND MANAGEMENT OF SODIUM DISORDERS IN THE NEUROSURGICAL PATIENT
Jesse Edwards, Sharad Sharma and Rakesh Gulati
10. BLOOD GLUCOSE MANAGEMENT IN THE NEUROSURGICAL PATIENT
Kevin Furlong and Satya Villuri
11. MANAGEMENT OF PRESSURE INJURIES IN NEUROSURGICAL PATIENTS
Rene Daniel and Barak Abai
12. PERIOPERATIVE OPTIMIZATION OF PAIN CONTROL IN PATIENTS UNDERGOING SPINAL SURGERY USING MULTIMODAL ANALGESIA
Newton Mei and Ashwini D. Sharan
13. REHABILITATION MEDICINE IN THE NEUROSURGICAL PATIENT
Catriona M. Harrop, M. Harrop, Kristin Gustafson, Swathi Maddula, James Bresnahan, and Philip Koehler
14. PALLIATIVE CARE IN THE NEUROSURGICAL PATIENT
Michael Liquori, Kathleen Mechler, John Liantonio, and Adam Pennarola