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 |