Residency Training: the role of neurocritical care in resident education.
Neurology is traditionally recognized as primarily an outpatient or consultative specialty, usually attracting candidates whose main focus may not necessarily be the management of complex critically ill patients or the performance of invasive procedures. However, the advent of modern mechanical ventilation and, more recently, effective therapies for the treatment of acute ischemic stroke and other neurologic catastrophes is bringing about a paradigm shift, with neurologists increasingly assuming a more aggressive attitude and rapid response to frequently disabling and often fatal pathologies.
Neurocritical Care Unit, Cerebrovascular Center, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH, USA. ivanuerj@gmail.com
Ivan Rocha Ferreira
IR
Da Silva
Joao Antonio
JA
Gomes
D003422:Critical Care / Q000379:methods* / Q000592:standards; D006801:Humans; D007396:Internship and Residency; D009422:Nervous System Diseases / Q000628:therapy*; D009462:Neurology / Q000193:education*; D000078329:Workforce