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.

Dr. Daniel is an attending physician taking care of neurosurgery and orthopaedic spine surgery patients at the Thomas Jefferson University Hospital and the Jefferson Hospital for Neuroscience. He also serves as the Lead Farber Hospitalist at the Jefferson Gibbon Building and leads his own laboratory at the Center for Translational Medicine of the Department of Medicine. His research aims to develop and test innovative methods to prevent HIV-1 infection, with a particular focus on women's health. He lives in Ambler, Pennsylvania with his wife and two children.
Dr. Harrop serves Thomas Jefferson University as their Division Director of Hospital Medicine for the Vickie and Jack Farber Institute of Neuroscience. In collaboration with 14 other Hospitalists, Dr. Harrop provides co-management services for Thomas Jefferson University's Department of Neurosurgery. Dr. Harrop lives outside of Philadelphia with her Husband and two children.