Neurology and Neurosurgery

By Alex Yartsev - 11/07/2015

Offered below is an organised list of summaries on the topic of neurology and neurosurgery from the Critical Care Compendium, courtesy of LITFL. Given the mixture of topics, the ideal audience for this material is the final stage exam candidate pursuing dual CICM and ACEM fellowship qualifications.

Neurology and Neurosurgery in the Critical Care Compendium
Literature Summaries Neurology Literature Summaries Neurosurgery Literature Summaries Traumatic Brain Injury Increased ICP in TBI Limitations of CT Head in TBI Moderate head injury, severity, traumatic brain injury Polyuria and Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) Temperature and TBI, hypothermia Lund Concept in Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) Traumatic brain injury Literature Summaries Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) Assessment Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) Management Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) Monitoring Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) Prognosis Traumatic brain injury (TBI) Overview Glasgow Coma Scale, Score, GCS Cerebral Perfusion Pressure in TBI Decompressive craniectomy Cerebral edema, oedema Base of skull fracture Diabetes insipdus due to head injury mannitol hypertonic saline Post-traumatic seizures, prophylaxis, phenytoin, levetiracetam Subarachnoid haemorrhage Subarachnoid Haemorrhage: ICU Management, SAH Subarachnoid Haemorrhage: Initial Management, SAH Subarachnoid Haemorrhage: Prognostication, SAH Subarachnoid Haemorrhage (SAH), overview Vasospasm in Subarachnoid Haemorrhage, SAH, mananagement Subarachnoid Haemorrhage: Complications, SAH Subarachnoid Haemorrhage Grading Systems Coiling versus Clipping in Subarachnoid Haemorrhage Monitoring in Subarachnoid Haemorrhage, SAH, vasospasm Diagnostic and monitoring modalities External Ventricular Drain, EVD, ICP monitors Extradural ICP monitors CT Head Evoked potentials in critical care Spinal imaging Intracranial Structures That Exhibit Contrast Enhancement MRI and the critically ill MRI Head Continuous EEG Monitoring Electroencephalogram Jugular Bulb Oxygen Saturation Weakness ICU acquired weakness acute non-traumatic weakness Botulism myasthaenia gravis myopathy versus neuropathy Guillain-Barre Syndrome vs Myasthaenia Gravis vs Motor Neuron Disease Guillain Barre Syndrome (GBS) Epilepsy status epilepticus non-convulsive status epilepticus refractory status epilepticus Stroke Stroke thrombolysis Watershed infarcts Acute ischemic stroke basilar artery occlusion intracerebral haemorrhage Sedation analgesia and delirium sedation in ICU sleep in ICU delayed awakening in ICU delirium Spinal trauma Spinal cord syndromes Cervical spine assessment Cervical spine fractures Acute traumatic spinal cord injury Spinal cord anatomy and syndromes Physical examination and differential diagnosis Differentials for Parkinsonism Neck stiffness Differentials for seizures, epilepsy, status epilepticus, seizure mimics Exophthalmos, proptosis Differential diagnosis of chorea Meningism, stiff neck Fixed dilated pupil, mydriasis, blown pupil Loss of vision, visual loss, blindiness Optic disk abnormality, papiloedema, optic atrophy, papillitis Red eye, painful, painless Retinal haemorrhage Tunnel vision CSF analysis, lumbar puncture, meningitis Coma Dementia DDX Differentials for dystonia Differentials for facial twitches Differentials for radiculopathy Differentials for a sudden severe headache Myotomes and differentiating nerve lesions Signs of intracranial hypertension Ataxia DDX, incoordination Bulbar palsy, pseudobulbar palsy Cerebellar disease Differentials for movement disorders Differentuials for peripheral neuropathy Blepharospasm, blinking, facial tics Third Cranial Nerve Lesions Anosmia Cranial nerve lesions, palsy, 3, 4, 6, 11, 12, multiple Differentials for Horner's syndrome Tremor Wasting of the small muscles of the hand Intracranial calcification Ventriculomegaly Persistent tonic conjugate eye deviation Horner's syndrome Visual field lesions Brain herniation The Brainstem Rules of Four, clinical examination Bulbar dysfunction in ICU Oculocephalic and oculovestibular reflexes, caloric testing, Doll'e eye test, Pseudocoma pupillary abnormalities Eye Movements in Coma Neuromiscellanea Central Pontine Myelinolysis, extrapontinemyelinolysis, osmotic demyelination syndrome HSV encephalitis Hypoxic brain injury, ischaemic, ischemic, encephalopathy transverse myelitis viral encephalitis wernicke's encephalopathy Anti-NMDA-receptor encephalitis aseptic meningitis acute confusion in a diabetic post-operative confusion Posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome (PRES) Central diabetes insipidus coma-like syndromes Hearing loss in ICU, deafness Ventriculitis Hiccoughs, hiccups

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Neurology and Neurosurgery

Literature Summaries

Traumatic Brain Injury

Subarachnoid haemorrhage

Diagnostic and monitoring modalities

Weakness

Epilepsy

Stroke

Sedation analgesia and delirium

Spinal trauma

Physical examination and differential diagnosis

Neuromiscellanea