This compact handbook provides all the essential specific steps for assessment and management of emergencies in neurology. Edited by an emergency medicine physician and a neurologist, these chapters are easy to review during or after a busy shift. Focus is placed on the acute patient with both common and complex neurological presentations. Also covered are specific, diagnosis-based problems, including traumatic brain injury, stroke, and seizures. Each chapter is filled with relevant computed tomography, magnetic resonance, and vascular studies, as well as many other images, algorithms, and tables. Neurology Emergencies will prove invaluable not only to busy residents in emergency and internal medicine, family practice and neurology, but also medical students who want to excel. This reference guide will also benefit hospitalists and attendings who care for patients with acute neurological problems.
Author(s): Jonathan Edlow, Magdy Selim
Edition: 1
Year: 2010
Language: English
Pages: 256
Contents......Page 6
Series Preface......Page 8
Preface......Page 10
Acknowledgments......Page 12
Contributors......Page 14
1 Approach to the Neurological Patient......Page 18
2 Presenting Symptoms......Page 30
3 Cerebral Ischemia......Page 62
4 Cerebral Hemorrhage......Page 92
5 Seizures......Page 108
6 Generalized Weakness......Page 126
7 CNS Infections......Page 152
8 Selected Cranial and Peripheral Neuropathies......Page 176
9 Traumatic Head Injury......Page 200
10 Intracranial Pressure (ICP) and Hydrocephalus......Page 220
B......Page 244
C......Page 245
G......Page 246
I......Page 247
N......Page 248
R......Page 249
T......Page 250
Z......Page 251
