Neurointensive Care A Clinical Guide to Patient Safety
This book provides guidance for physicians confronted with acute neurological crises in the context of patient safety centred practice standards. It highlights how the implementation of patient safety standards in the neurointensive care unit leads to bet
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Neurointensive Care A Clinical Guide to Patient Safety
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Neurointensive Care
Katja E. Wartenberg • Khalid Shukri Tamer Abdelhak Editors
Neurointensive Care A Clinical Guide to Patient Safety
Editors Katja E. Wartenberg Neurological Intensive Care Unit Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg Halle (Saale) Sachsen-Anhalt Germany
Tamer Abdelhak Department of Neurology Southern Illinois University School of Medicine Springfield, IL USA
Khalid Shukri Department of Critical Care Medinah National Hospital Medinah Munnawarah Saudi Arabia
ISBN 978-3-319-17292-7 ISBN 978-3-319-17293-4 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-17293-4
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Preface
Neurocritical care is a rapidly developing specialty worldwide with participation of multiprofessional health-care workers and the aim to provide high-quality care and to improve outcomes of patients with life-threatening neurological diseases. At the same time, in the midst of increasingly available high-end monitoring techniques and invasive technologies, the focus has shifted toward patient safety and quality of patient care. With accumulating economic pressure, the rising number of patients in our aging population, fast turnover, and expanding application of technology and measurements, the patient’s safety and well-being may be at risk. This book is an effort of international multidisciplinary health-care providers with a focus on neurocritical care to draw the attention back to treating patients in a neurointensive care unit with a safe environment, with secure management protocols and algorithms according to various disease and intensive care categories. A
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