Textbook of Neuroanaesthesia and Critical Care

Part I. Neurophysiology and Neuropharmacology: 1. Anatomical considerations in
neuroanaesthesia; 2. The cerebral circulation; 3. Mechanisms of injury and
cerebral protection; 4. Intracranial pressure; Part II. Monitoring the CNS: 5.
Electrophysiological monitoring of the central nervous system; 6. Bedside
measurements of cerebral blood flow; 7. Monitoring intracranial pressure; 8.
Transcranial doppler ultrasonography; 9. Cerebral oximetry; 10. Monitoring
brain chemistry; 11. Multimodal monitoring in neurointensive care; Part III.
Intraoperative Management of Neurosurgical Patients: 12. Some general
considerations in neuroanaesthesia; 13. Anaesthesia for surgery of
supratentorial space-occupying lesions; 14. Anaesthesia for intracranial
vascular surgery; 15. Anaesthesia for carotid surgery; 16. Principles of
paediatric neurosurgery; 17. The anaesthetic management of spinal injuries and
surgery to the cervical spine; 18. Anaesthesia for neurosurgery without
craniotomy; 19. Anaesthesia for posterior fossa surgery; Part IV. Neurosurgical
and Neurological Intensive Care: 20. Management of acute head injury:
pathophysiology, initial resuscitation and transfer; 21. Intensive care after
acute head injury; 22. ICU of paediatric head injury; 23. Intensive care
managements of intracranial haemorrhage; 24. Postoperative care in the
neurointensive care unit; 25. Management of acute ischaemic stroke; 26.
Neuromuscular disease in the neurological intensive care unit; 27. Brainstem
death and management of the organ donor; Part V. Anaesthesia for Neuroimaging:
28. Anaesthesia for neuroradiology; 29. Anaesthesia for magnetic resonance
imaging.

Contributors
Robert Macfarlane, Patrick W. Doyle, Arun K. Gupta, Brian McNamara, Simon J.
Boniface, Sarah Walsh, Marck Czosnycka, Mayesh Prabbu, Peter J. A. Hutchinson,
Mark T. O’Connell, Pawanjit S. Minhas, Peter J. Kirkpatrick, Leisha S.
Godsiff, Sanjeeva Gupta, Fay Gilder, Karen Heath, Richard E. Erskine, Catherine
Duffy, Mark J. Abrahams, Robert L. Ross-Russell, Helen L. Smith, Liz A.
Warburton, Alasdair J. Coles, Richard Seigne, Kevin E. J. Gunning, Rowan M.
Burnstein