{"id":9044,"date":"2013-01-13T22:46:51","date_gmt":"2013-01-14T03:46:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crashingpatient.com\/?p=9044"},"modified":"2014-07-13T23:38:21","modified_gmt":"2014-07-14T03:38:21","slug":"icu-management-of-brain-tumor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crashingpatient.com\/medical-surgical\/neurology\/icu-management-of-brain-tumor.htm\/","title":{"rendered":"ICU Management of Brain Tumor"},"content":{"rendered":"
acutely bring NA up to 150 until post-op with 3% infusion and 23.4% boluses. After op, continue 3% or 2% to maintain sodium within 10 of plateau, keep weaning slowly over 48 hrs post-op at which point can transition to NS Steroids Decadron 10 mg continue 8-32 mg\/day posterior fossa will need slow wean over ~2 weeks <\/p>\n
panhypopit administer steroids if bleeding into the sellar lesion <\/p>\n
may have delayed swelling from retraction of the cerebellum (days) causing obstruction of the 4th and resultant <\/p>\n
hydrocephalus. Especially if cerebellar veins were sacrificed immediate EVD, increase steroids, <\/p>\n
steroids and anti-convulsants <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
acutely bring NA up to 150 until post-op with 3% infusion and 23.4% boluses. After op, continue 3% or 2% to maintain sodium within 10 of plateau, keep weaning slowly over 48 hrs post-op at which point can transition to NS Steroids Decadron 10 mg continue 8-32 mg\/day posterior fossa will need slow wean […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n