Preface / Mary Kay Bader
Altered cellular anatomy and physiology of acute brain injury and spinal cord injury / Lisa A. Zuccarelli
Keeping the brain in the zone: applying the severe head injury guidelines to practice / Mary Kay Bader and Sylvain Palmer
Intracranial pressure monitoring and assessing intracranial compliance in brain injury / Karen March
Microsensor and microdialysis technology: advanced techniques in the management of severe head injury / Mariann Haselman and Sherry Fox
Cognitive impairments following traumatic brain injury: etiologies and interventions / Alice E. Davis
Pulmonary challenges in neurotrauma / Nancy Munro
Nutrition strategies in neurotrauma / Jill Donaldson, Marcello A. Borzatta, and Debbie Matossian
Penetrating trauma to the head / Cynthia Blank-Reid and Paul C. Reid
Neurotrauma in infants: shaken impact syndrome (inflicted head injury) / Wallis H. Wallis and Gary Goodman
Acute spinal cord injury: nursing considerations for the first 72 hours / Virginia Prendergast and Cindy Sullivan
Spinal cord injury in the elderly / Nancy E. Villanueva
Use of an acute spinal cord injury clinical pathway / Laura McIlvoy, Kimberly Meyer, and Todd Vitaz
Brain death and organ donation / Darlene Lovasik.