Teaching Course 17: Interventions in neurocritical care – Level 2

Chairperson: Cristina Panea, Bucharest, Romania

The aim of neurological critical care is to provide, in a prompt fashion, acute medical therapies and appropriate interventions in neurological illnesses accompanied by CNS/PNS- and/or organ dysfunction. This Teaching Course will focus on major aspects of care for various neurological pathologies necessitating diagnostic and/or therapeutic neuro-critical care management. Starting from basic knowledge, the lectures concentrate on the latest guideline recommendations and expert’ opinions in each topic.

At the end of the course the participants will be able to: 

• assess the needs of nutrition, water and electrolyte intake, evaluate and provide adequate therapeutic approach in different clinical conditions
• understand the differential indications, mechanisms, benefits and risks of analgesia, sedation and relaxation and should be able to apply these modern techniques in NICU patients.
• know the indications, contraindications and risks of lumbar drainage and ventricular drainage in NICU patients

These lectures, offered in an interactive manner, should allow neurologists to manage these fundamental issues of critical patient care regardless of the administrative organization of the working unit

Cristina Panea

Bucharest, Romania

Ronny Beer

Innsbruck, Austria

Ethem Murat Arsava

Ankara, Turkey

Dimitre Staykov

Eisenstadt, Austria