RT Book, Section A1 Lee, Kiwon SR Print(0) ID 1143953776 T1 Foreword T2 The NeuroICU Book, 2e YR 2017 FD 2017 PB McGraw-Hill Education PP New York, NY SN 9780071841443 LK neurology.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1143953776 RD 2024/10/14 AB Three converging realities provide the raisons d’etre for this new edition of The NeuroICU Book. First, management of neurological and neurosurgical patients is becoming increasingly complex and fluid as diagnostic and therapeutic options increase. There are few “standards of care” that have not substantially changed over the past few years. Second, as our population increases, engages in risky behavior, and ages, the burden of trauma and neurological disease threatens to overwhelm our hospitals. The number of physicians and other staff who need training to care for these patients is truly exploding. Finally, evidence-based protocol-driven care improves quality metrics, value and patient centered outcomes. Every hospital and healthcare system now accepts and is adapting to this new reality of medical practice. Nowhere are these themes more evident than in the NeuroICU, hence the need for a comprehensive, authoritative, and easily negotiated reference for medical staff managing patients in this environment.