Seizures in Critical Care

Part I. General Section

1. Status Epilepticus - Lessons and Challenges from Animal Models
Inna Keselman, Claude G. Wasterlain, Jerome Niquet, James W. Y. Chen

2. Impact of Seizures on Outcome
Iván Sánchez Fernández, Tobias Loddenkemper

3. Diagnosing and Monitoring Seizures in the ICU: The Role of Continuous EEG for Detection and Management of Seizures in Critically Ill Patients, Including the Ictal-Interictal Continuum
Gamaleldin Osman, Daniel Friedman, Lawrence J. Hirsch

4. Seizures and Quantitative EEG
Jennifer A. Kim, Lidia M. V. R. Moura, Craig Williamson, Edilberto Amorim, Sahar Zafar, Siddharth Biswal, M. M. Brandon Westover

5. Spreading Depolarizations and Seizures in Clinical Subdural Electrocorticographic Recordings
Gajanan S. Revankar, Maren K. L. Winkler, Sebastian Major, Karl Schoknecht, Uwe Heinemann, Johannes Woitzik, Jan Claassen, Jed A. Hartings, Jens P. Dreier

6. Multimodality Monitoring Correlates of Seizures
Jens Witsch, Nicholas A. Morris, David Roh, Hans-Peter Frey, Jan Claassen

7. Management of Critical Care Seizures
Christa B. Swisher, Aatif M. Husain

8. Management of Status Epilepticus in the Intensive Care Unit
Panayiotis N. Varelas, Jan Claassen

Part II. Etiology-Specific Section

9. Ischemic Stroke, Hyperperfusion Syndrome, Cerebral Sinus Thrombosis, and Critical Care Seizures
Panayiotis N. Varelas, Lotfi Hacein-Bey

10. Hemorrhagic Stroke and Critical Care Seizures
Ali Mahta, Jan Claassen

11. Traumatic Brain Injury and Critical Care Seizures
Georgia Korbakis, Paul M. Vespa, Andrew Beaumont

12. Brain Tumors and Critical Care Seizures
Panayiotis N. Varelas, Jose Ignacio Suarez, Marianna V. Spanaki

13. Global Hypoxia-Ischemia and Critical Care Seizures
Lauren Koffman, Matthew A. Koenig, Romergryko Geocadin

14. Fulminant Hepatic Failure, Multiorgan Failure and Endocrine Crisis and Critical Care Seizures
Julian Macedo, Brandon Foreman

15. Organ Transplant Recipients and Critical Care Seizures
Deena M. Nasr, Sara Hocker, Eelco F. M. Wijdicks

16. Extreme Hypertension, Eclampsia, and Critical Care Seizures
Michel T. Torbey

17. Infection or Inflammation and Critical Care Seizures
Andrew C. Schomer, Wendy Ziai, Mohammed Rehman, Barnett R. Nathan

18. Electrolyte Disturbances and Critical Care Seizures
Claudine Sculier, Nicolas Gaspard

19. Alcohol-Related Seizures in the Intensive Care Unit
Chandan Mehta, Mohammed Rehman, Panayiotis N. Varelas

20. Drug-Induced Seizures in Critically Ill Patients
Denise H. Rhoney, Greene Shepherd

21. Illicit Drugs and Toxins and Critical Care Seizures
Maggie L. McNulty, Andreas Luft, Thomas P. Bleck

22. Seizures and Status Epilepticus in Pediatric Critical Care
Nicholas S. Abend

Keywords: Medicine & Public Health, Neurology, Neurosurgery, Emergency Medicine