Book contents
- Stories of Stroke
- Stories of Stroke
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Why This Book Needed to Be Written
- Preface
- Part I Early Recognition
- Part II Basic Knowledge, Sixteenth to Early Twentieth Centuries
- Part III Modern Era, Mid-Twentieth Century to the Present
- Types of Stroke
- Some Key Physicians
- Imaging
- Care
- Chapter Forty One Care of Stroke Patients
- Chapter Forty Two Neurocritical Care
- Treatment
- Part IV Stroke Literature, Organizations, and Patients
- Index
- References
Chapter Forty Two - Neurocritical Care
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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 13 December 2022
- Stories of Stroke
- Stories of Stroke
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Why This Book Needed to Be Written
- Preface
- Part I Early Recognition
- Part II Basic Knowledge, Sixteenth to Early Twentieth Centuries
- Part III Modern Era, Mid-Twentieth Century to the Present
- Types of Stroke
- Some Key Physicians
- Imaging
- Care
- Chapter Forty One Care of Stroke Patients
- Chapter Forty Two Neurocritical Care
- Treatment
- Part IV Stroke Literature, Organizations, and Patients
- Index
- References
Summary
When Werner Hacke, the 39-year-old newly appointed chair of neurology at the University of Heidelberg in Germany, strode into the 12-bed Neuro-Intensive Care Unit in 1987, it was the start of something new. Neurocritical care began in the 1980s with convergence of the evolution of critical care and advances in the diagnosis and management of severe brain injury. Although many people contributed to that convergence, three stand out: Allan Ropper at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), Dan Hanley at Johns Hopkins Hospital, and Werner Hacke. Bold, confident, and with a take-no-prisoners focus on aggressive treatment, Hacke was the embodiment of neurocritical care, especially for acute stroke. The roots of neurocritical care can be traced to the surgical wards of Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore early in the twentieth century.
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- Stories of StrokeKey Individuals and the Evolution of Ideas, pp. 396 - 410Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022