Neurointensive care

Neurocritical care
	An intensive care unit in a hospital
System	Nervous system
Significant diseases	stroke, seizure, epilepsy, aneurysms, Traumatic brain injury, spinal cord injury, status epilepticus, Cerebral edema, encephalitis, meningitis, brain tumor, respiratory failure secondary to neuromuscular disease.
Significant tests	Computed axial tomography, MRI scan, Lumbar puncture
Specialist	neurointensivists, neurosurgeons

Neurocritical care (or neurointensive care) is a medical field that treats life-threatening diseases of the nervous system and identifies, prevents, and treats secondary brain injury.

An intensive care unit in a hospital
System	Nervous system
Significant diseases	stroke, seizure, epilepsy, aneurysms, Traumatic brain injury, spinal cord injury, status epilepticus, Cerebral edema, encephalitis, meningitis, brain tumor, respiratory failure secondary to neuromuscular disease.
Significant tests	Computed axial tomography, MRI scan, Lumbar puncture
Specialist	neurointensivists, neurosurgeons