Historically, neurology has been a primarily outpatient specialty. 1 The advent of modern
neurosurgical techniques, as well as more elegant means of artificial ventilation in the …

Critical care medicine came into sharp focus in the second part of the 20th century. The care
of acutely ill neurologic patients in the USA may have originated in postoperative …

Background Neurocritical care is a new subspecialty field in medicine that intersects with
many of the neuroscience and critical care specialties, and continues to evolve in its scope …

The specialty of neurocritical care (NCC) has evolved rapidly and has an exciting future. The
current neurologic intensive care units (NICUs) were born in the 1960s as a collaborative …

Neurocritical care (NCC) emerged as a distinct specialty with the advent of advanced
neurosurgical techniques, improved understanding of resuscitation, and major technological …

The early impetus for the development of the modern intensive care unit has been driven in
part by neurologic conditions and their impact on other body systems. Yet the journey to …

Care of the critically ill neurologic patient, more commonly referred to as neurocritical care,
has matured through new knowledge [1], policy and administration [2–4], advances in …

This issue of Current Opinion in Critical Care focuses on neurointensive care. The papers
here cover the whole spectrum of clinical science in the specialty, from pathophysiology to …

Medicine always evolves. What we did or accepted as 'standard of care'20 years ago or
even five years ago is now very different in 2020. In particular, neocritical care that focuses …

Neurocritical care is a growing clinical discipline which has matured into a full-fledged and
recognized multiprofessional subspecialty of critical care medicine. We can say without a …