By Sarah Livesay, DNP, APRN Associate Dean, Rush University, President NCS Mary Kay Bader, RN, MSN, Neurocritical Care CNS, Mission Hospital Mission Viejo CA, Past President NCS Karen Hirsch MD, Associate Professor of Neurology, Division Chief Neurocriticial Care, Stanford University ...
Kate Meurer Clinical Research Associate in Neurocritical Care and Vascular Neurology Yale School of Medicine, Yale New Haven Hospital Ilayda Top Clinical Research Associate in Neurocritical Care and Vascular Neurology Yale School of Medicine, Yale New Haven Hospital Dan Doherty Clinical...
By Reem Alsultan, Pharm.D, BCPS Clinical Toxicology Fellow Poison and Drug Information Center Arizona, Tucson Intravenous unfractionated heparin (UFH) is widely used in the clinical setting including neurocritical care patients. 1,2 Pharmacokinetic properties of UFH including its short half...
By Jamie Nicole LaBuzetta, MD, MSc, MPhil UC San Diego, Dept of Neurosciences, Division of Neurocritical Care In a prior Currents article , I discussed that in order to obtain informed consent or refusal for medical care, a clinician must ensure decision-making capacity; disclose...
By Jamie Nicole LaBuzetta, MD, MSc, MPhil UC San Diego, Dept of Neurosciences, Division of Neurocritical Care Informed consent is the complex basis of shared decision-making in the medical realm. It involves sharing information with a patient or surrogate decision-maker and asking for...
Intra-Arterial Selective Cooling in Acute Systemic Stroke By Francisco Gomez, MD 1 ; Ivo Bach, MD 2 ; and Fawaz Al-Mufti, MD 3 1 Department of Neurology, University of Pennsylvania 2 Department of Neurology, Rutgers - New Jersey Medical School 3 Department of Neurology and...
By Scott Woolf, DO, (left) Sydney Moseley, MD, (center) Hussein Alshammari, MD (center) and Fawaz Al-Mufti, MD 1 (right) 1 Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, Westchester Medical Center at New York Medical College The authors have no...
By Winnie Lau, MD No one was expecting rain in San Diego, but that did not stop the hordes of intensivists and critical care providers from converging on SCCM 2019. Neurocritical care providers were no exception, and the presence of the neurosciences was certainly palpable this year. The...
By Wendy Dusenbury, DNP, APRN, FNP-BC, AGACNP-BC, ANVP-BC, CNRN; (left) Anne W. Alexandrov, PhD, AGACNP-BC, ANVP-BC, NVRN-BC, CCRN, FAAN; (center) Fern Cudlip, MSN,FNP-BC, CNRN, NVRN-BC, ANVP-BC, FNCS; (center) and Audrey Paulson, DNP, FNP-BC, CCRN, CNRN, SCRN (right) Many of the RNs and...
By Eelco Wijdicks, MD, PhD; Alejandro Rabinstein, MD; Sara Hocker, MD; and Jennifer Fugate, DO Division of Critical Care Neurology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN The Neurosciences Intensive Care Unit (neuro-ICU) at Mayo Clinic Rochester was arguably one of the first combined neurology...