Neurocritical Care for Neurosurgeons: Principles and Applications

This unique book discusses the management of neurocritical care patients, including basic concepts, pathophysiologic principles, monitoring, treatment indications, and factors that affect outcomes in patients requiring neurocritical care assistance.

It addresses the need to improve continuing education in this area, highlighting patient care in the perioperative period. This is the first book to provide a simplified overview for neurosurgeons and neurologists to understand the neurocritical patient journey. It is divided into three parts: the first covers the basics concepts, from monitoring to the interpretation of exams; the second explores general management of specific situations encountered in intensive care and the last part includes prognostic and rehabilitation models, as well as new perspectives. Thanks to the accessible, neurosurgical specific language, the book is well suited for all professionals involved in neurocritical care, including students, but is also a valuable resource for residents and researches, as well as experienced neurosurgeons or neurologists looking for updated information and guidelines.

Eberval Gadelha Figueiredo, MD, PhD, completed a fellowship in microsurgery at the Barrow Neurological Institute (USA). He holds a Ph.D. in Sciences and is an Associate Professor of Neurosurgery and lecturer at the Faculty of Medicine at the University of São Paulo (USP), as well as Head of the Vascular Neurosurgery Group, Division of Neurological surgery (HCFMUSP). He has been Postgraduate Coordinator at the University of Sao Paulo’s Department of Neurology since 2015, and Chief Editor of Brazilian Neurosurgery, the official Brazilian neurosurgery journal since 2011. He is the president of Brazilian Neurosurgical Society (2021-2022) and associate member of Harvard Medical School and Harvard University Alumni since 2015.

Leonardo C. Welling MD, Ph.D., is a Neurosurgeon and member of the Brazilian Society of Neurosurgery. He has a postgraduate qualification in neurointensive care at Sirio Libanês Hospital (São Paulo) and completed a fellowship in microneuroanatomy at the Portuguese Beneficence Hospital (São Paulo). He holds a doctorate in Medical Sciences from the School of Medicine of the University of São Paulo (FM-USP) and completed the same university's postdoctorate neurology program. He is a member of the Congress of Neurological Surgeons (USA) and a Professor of Neurosurgery at the State University of Ponta Grossa (UEPG).

Nícollas Nunes Rabelo, MD, is a Neurosurgeon and member of the Brazilian Society of Neurosurgery. He has a postgraduate qualification in neurointensive medicine from the Sirio Libanês Hospital and completed a fellowship in Vascular and Skull Base Neurosurgery at the University of São Paulo (HCFMUSP). He has a PhD in progress in Neurosciences and is an adjunct researcher from the School of Medicine of the University of São Paulo. He is also Professor of Atenas Medical School of Passos and Education and Research consultant in in Neurosurgery.