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Brain, Vol. 122, No. 1, 171-174, January 1999
© 1999 Oxford University Press

Book Reviews

TRAUMA ANESTHESIA AND CRITICAL CARE OF NEUROLOGICAL INJURY.

Edited by Kenneth J. Abrams and Christopher M. Grande. 1997. Pp. 553. Armonk, NY: Futura Publishing Company. Price $98.00..

N. M. Dearden

Leeds General Infirmary, Leeds, UK

This book has 33 contributors and two senior consulting editors, Elizabeth Frost and Donald Prow, and comprises 18 chapters. The majority of the authors are from the USA and other contributions are from Norway, France and Japan. The book is presented on behalf of the International Trauma Anaesthesia and Critical Care Society and follows the 1993 textbook of Trauma Anaesthesia and Critical Care as a specialized volume written predominantly by anaesthetists and critical care specialists and addressing the management of neurological injury.

The book is prefaced with a list of contents, providing page references to each of the 18 chapters and their authors. The book has been edited to provide the reader with a chronological account of the critical care of head injury, beginning with prehospital anaesthetic management, passing through various aspects of early trauma care, investigation, surgery and critical care, and finally dealing with the issues of brain death . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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