What are the most common diseases treated in a neurocritical care unit?
The most common clinical disorders in the neurocritical care unit are
- ischemic stroke,
- intracerebral hemorrhage,
- subarachnoid hemorrhage,
- brain tumors,
- brain trauma,
- status epilepticus (SE),
- neuromuscular emergencies (e.g., myasthenia gravis crisis, Guillain–Barré syndrome),
- spinal cord injury,
- infection of brain and spinal cord,
- cardiopulmonary complications of brain injury
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