Management of the Pediatric Neurocritical Care Patient

Abstract Pediatric neurocritical care is a growing subspecialty of pediatric intensive care that focuses on the management of acute neurological diseases in children. A brief history of the field of pediatric neurocritical care is provided. Neuromonitoring strategies for children are reviewed. Management of major categories of acute childhood central neurologic diseases are reviewed, including treatment of diseases associated with intracranial hypertension, seizures and status epilepticus, stroke, central nervous system infection and inflammation, and hypoxic-ischemic injury.

• Publication year

  2016

• Venue

  Seminars in neurology

• Publication date

  2016-12-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine

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  DOI 10.1055/s-0036-1592107PMID 27907953PMCID PMC5369233
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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