Intensive care neurology and the autonomic nervous system
- Correspondence to: Professor I Bone, Department of Neurology, Southern General Hospital, 1345 Govan Road, Glasgow G51 4TS, UK; i.bone{at}clinmed.gla.ac.uk
Specialists often feel somewhat uneasy when they step outside their area of expertise. When seeing a patient with a neurological problem on the intensive care unit (ICU) the neurologist is both inside (the patient has a neurological problem after all) and outside their expertise (just look at the ventilators). This tension has led to the development of a subspecialty of neurologists expert in both these areas—the growing subspecialty …
