Tag Michael L. James

Brain Microdialysis

Introduction Sampling of the cerebral tissue environment to gain clinical insight into the state of a patient's evolving neurologic health is an evolving trend in neuroscience and critical care medicine. A start to this can be traced back to Ungerstedt…

Neurosurgery

After uncomplicated neurosurgical procedures, patients are often admitted to an intensive care unit (ICU) for close observation. In the large majority of cases, this level of care is warranted as a means to monitor the patient’s neurologic function carefully and…

Carotid and Intracranial Surgery

Anesthesia for Carotid Surgery In the United States, each year approximately 795,000 people experience a new or recurrent stroke. Approximately 610,000 of these were first attacks and 185,000 were recurrent attacks. In 2016 the age-adjusted death rate for stroke as…