Full Description
This comprehensive and up-to-date book covers the common emergencies in neurology, neurosurgery, and psychiatry. Chapters examine a variety of neurological emergencies, and offer pragmatic approaches to treatment and management. High-quality tables, figures, and algorithms supplement expertly written text, and provide readers with clear, rapid answers in an easily accessible format. Additionally, the book includes discussions on less common conditions, and incorporates specific methods for treating specific populations, such as pregnant women and transplant patients.
Neurological Emergencies: A Practical Approach is a go-to reference for all medical professions working in emergency treatment settings, and will increase their ability to better care for patients with acute neurological diseases.
Contents
Acute coma: Approach and management.- Status epilepticus and other epilepsy urgencies.- Emergent and urgent headaches.- Neuro-otologic emergencies.- Neuro-ophthalmologic urgencies and emergencies.- Neuro-oncologic emergencies.- Infections of central nervous system: Emergencies.- Acute Neuromuscular Respiratory Failure.- Intraparenchymal hemorrhage.- Subarachnoid hemorrhage.- Traumatic brain injury.- Traumatic spinal cord and spine injury.- Neurological Emergencies from recreational substances.- Neurological Emergencies from prescription drugs.- Emergencies of demyelinating diseases.- Movement disorders emergencies.- Psychiatric emergencies.- Sleep disorders emergencies.- Neurologic emergencies in transplant patients.- Neurologic emergencies in pregnant patients.- Acute ischemic stroke.- Acute cerebral venous stroke.
