**Meet the editor**

Farid Sadaka is certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine in Internal Medicine and Critical Care Medicine and by the United Council of Neurologic Subspecialties in Neurocritical care. Dr Sadaka is the medical director of the Neurologic and Trauma ICU at Mercy Hospital St Louis, and is also on teaching faculty at St Louis University. Dr Sadaka is an active member

of the Society of Critical Care Medicine and Neurocritical Care Society. Dr Sadaka has been invited to speak at several academic centers nationally and locally, on topics pertaining to sepsis and the microcirculation and Therapeutic Hypothermia. Dr Sadaka is actively involved in clinical research. He has had several peer-reviewed publications and book chapters, especially pertaining to neuroscience, traumatic brain injury, sepsis and the microcirculation.

Contents

**Preface IX** 

Farid Sadaka

Farid Sadaka

Edgar A. Samaniego

David E. Tannehill

**Hypertension 77** 

**Section 1 Therapeutic Hypothermia-General 1** 

Chapter 1 **Therapeutic Hypothermia: Adverse Events,** 

**Section 2 Therapeutic Hypothermia-Cardiac Arrest 21** 

**Section 3 Therapeutic Hypothermia-Stroke / SCI 49** 

Chapter 4 **Therapeutic Hypothermia in Acute Stroke 51** 

Chapter 5 **Hypothermia for Intracerebral Hemorrhage,** 

Farid Sadaka, Christopher Veremakis, Rekha Lakshmanan and Ashok Palagiri

Chapter 7 **Hypothermia in Acute Liver Failure 99**  Rahul Nanchal and Gagan Kumar

**Section 5 Therapeutic Hypothermia-Acute Liver Failure 97** 

Chapter 2 **Therapeutic Hypothermia for Cardiac Arrest 23** 

**Recognition, Prevention and Treatment Strategies 3**  Rekha Lakshmanan, Farid Sadaka and Ashok Palagiri

Chapter 3 **Prehospital Therapeutic Hypothermia for Cardiac Arrest 35** 

**Subarachnoid Hemorrhage & Spinal Cord Injury 69** 

**Section 4 Therapeutic Hypothermia- Traumatic Brain Injury/Intracranial** 

Chapter 6 **Therapeutic Hypothermia in Traumatic Brain Injury 79** 
