Intensive Care Treatment of Critical Neurosurgical Illnesses

Intenstive Care
Conditions in the Neurosurgery Intensive Care Unit include respiratory failure, hypotension, hypertension, coagulopathy, and blood clots.

Infections
Some of the most common infections encountered in the Neurosurgery ICU include pneumonia, sepsis, wound infections, and meningitis.

Seizures
The likelihood for seizure activity is much higher in neurosurgical patients compared to the general population, mainly because neurosurgical patients tend to have structural abnormalities of the brain.

Raised Intracranial Pressure
There are a variety of causes of elevated ICP, including the following: subarachnoid hemorrhage, intracranial hemorrhage, subdural hematomas, brain tumors, and hydrocephalus.