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Guide To The Comatose Patient
Expert advice for families and caregivers
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This book is ideal for family members and loved ones confronted with coma care. It is especially helpful for those seeking medical clarity and emotional support during critical care situations.
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Caring for a loved one in a coma is a distressing time, full of many questions, and often, not as many answers. Guide to the Comatose Patient is a first-of-its-kind book that steps into the shoes of the neurologist, to show the perspective of the staff caring for their loved ones – what worries us, how we think and intervene, what we can and cannot predict, and what we know as a certainty.
In our hospital ICUs, there are more than a dozen comatose patients at any given point of time. Causes of coma can range from drug-induced coma—in which medications are used to calm the patient and allow the ventilator to work properly—to coma due to intoxication and coma related to a brain injury. No matter the reason, it can be a distressing time for loved ones.
Guide to the Comatose Patient is a helpful guide for any family member or loved one confronted with coma. Author Eelco F. M. Wijdicks, M.D., Ph.D., a leading neurologist and attending neurointensivist at Mayo Clinic, begins each chapter by sharing helpful anecdotes from a career spanning four decades, before diving into the answers to commonly asked questions, such as:
- What are the causes of coma?
- When will the patient wake up and recover?
- When is no recovery expected?
- When should we consider organ donation?
- What are the rates of survival?
While there are many books on families' experiences with acute traumatic brain injury and coma, Dr. Wijdicks offers an unusually candid conversation that allows a peek inside the minds of the doctors caring for your loved one. Having had many experiences talking to families having to make difficult decisions at a very difficult time, Dr. Wijdicks's message is hopeful while remaining grounded in reality—a reality in which facts must dictate actions.
Guide to the Comatose Patient provides important information so that families better understand treatment options, but most importantly, the book offers an open dialogue and optimal transparency to help provide hope and healing through times of grief.
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ISBN: 9781893005815
Publisher: Mayo Clinic Press
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 04 August 2022
Country: United States
Imprint: Mayo Clinic Press
Audience: General / adult
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Width: 187.0mm
Height: 232.0mm
Weight: 0g
Pages: 256
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About the Author
Eelco F. M. Wijdicks, M.D., Ph.D., is a professor of neurology at Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science. He established Neurocritical Care at Mayo Clinic and is the attending neurointensivist in the Neurosciences Intensive Care Unit at the Saint Marys Hospital campus, Rochester, Minn. He currently serves as the chair in the Critical Care and Hospital Neurology Division in the Department of Neurology. Dr. Wijdicks has authored, co-authored, and edited 25 books on neurocritical care, and has published more than 1,000 research papers, practice guidelines, topic reviews, book chapters, and editorials. He is also the founding editor of the journal Neurocritical Care, the official journal of the Neurocritical Care Society, of which he is an Honorary Member. Along with colleagues at Mayo Clinic, he helped develop the FOUR Score coma scale to help assess the level of patient unconsciousness. Dr. Wijdicks lives with his wife Barbara-Jane in Rochester, Minnesota, and Bonita Springs, Florida.
Previous Publications:
Examining Neurocritical Patients, Springer
Mayo Clinic Critical and Neurocritical Care Board Review, Oxford University Press
Simulation in Acute Neurology
Brain Death, 978-0190662493, Oxford University Press
Handling Difficult Situations, Oxford University Press
The Comatose Patient, 2nd Ed., May 26, 2014, Oxford University Press
The Practice of Emergency and Critical Care Neurology, Oxford University Press
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