Neruo Critical Care Literature

[jdh71]

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Couldn't find another appropriate thread to bump. I'm a pulm/cc fellow and at many of the sites where I rotate we are the de facto neuro crit peeps, as only the U has it's own Neuro-ICU staffed with Neuro-Intensivists. I find the discipline interesting, and sometimes it seems a little counter-intuitive from my MICU background. I was wondering what is the best Neuro Critical Journal to keep up with. I can subscribe to an abstract service through the uni library and would like to add some neuro to the mix. Any suggestions.

 

[donesoon]

Neurocritical Care has good neuro-related articles. Some of the higher impact stuff may get published in Journal of Neurosurgery or Stroke, or the general critical care journals.

 

[jdh71]

Neurocritical Care has good neuro-related articles. Some of the higher impact stuff may get published in Journal of Neurosurgery or Stroke, or the general critical care journals.

Thanks!

 

[nuclearrap]

thanks

 

[JKSD]

Just a follow up to this. I have a rotation in a Neuro ICU in October, wanted to read a book to prep for it. Any suggestions? Is Stupor and Coma good enough or should I read something more specific?

 

[Mattchiavelli]

don't know any specific journals, but ones that deal with Trauma and Traumatic Brain Injury/Spinal Cord Injury might be helpful as well. I'm on an ICU rotation now at a both a level one trauma center and and primary stroke center. A lot of our critical patients with neurological issues are a result of trauma (ATVs, unhelmeted motorcyclists, unrestrained motorists). We don't have a drip and ship (yet) which might change up the patient mix, but definitely don't exclude trauma.

 

[typhoonegator]

If you are willing to buy a book, Eelco Wijdiks' The Clinical Practice of Critical Care Neurology is a great book, and covers ICP management, post-stroke and ICH care, vasospasm, tumors, herniation, spine trauma, GBS, encephalitis, etc.

Neurocritical Care as a journal is OK. But CCM has a lot of good higher impact articles on neuro-specific issues, like vent management in the NCCU, extubation, fluids and electrolytes in brain injury, when to use HD vs. CVVH, etc.