Overview

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.

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Author:   Jonathan Edlow (MD, MD, Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School) ,  Magdy Selim (MD, PhD, MD, PhD, Associate Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint:   Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 17.50cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 9.90cm
Weight:   0.181kg
ISBN:  

9780195388589

ISBN 10:   0195388585
Pages:   256
Publication Date:   25 November 2010
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   To order  
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Table of Contents

1. Approach to the Neurological Patient - Jonathan A. Edlow and Magdy H. Selim 2. Presenting Symptoms - Jonathan A. Edlow and Magdy H. Selim 3. Vascular Processes: Cerebral Ischemia - Radoslav Raychev, Sidney Starkman, and David S. Liebeskind 4. Vascular Processes: Cerebral Hemorrhage - Joshua N. Goldstein and Jonathan Rosand 5. Seizures - Michael Ganetsky and Frank W. Drislane 6. Generalized Weakness - Carl A. Germann and Nicholas Silvestri 7. CNS Infections - J. Stephen Huff and Barnett R. Nathan 8. Selected Cranial and Peripheral Neuropathies - Jonathan A. Edlow and Magdy H. Selim 9. Traumatic Processes - Daniel C. McGillicuddy and John E. McGillicuddy 10. Intracranial Pressure and Hydrocephalus - Scott A. Marshall, Hardin A. Pantle, and Romergryko G. Geocadin

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JAE: Associate Professor of Medicine, Vice Chair, Department of Emergency Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts MS: Associate Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School, Division of Cerebrovascular Diseases, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts

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