Full Description
This book aims to provide adequate and updated clinical, diagnostic, and therapeutic references for the treatment of neurological emergencies. This volume describes the approach with decision-making algorithms that start from the symptom(s) for which the patient has accessed the emergency room.
The volume provides practical tools for conducting a diagnostic and therapeutic path in urgent neurological conditions. Therefore, the volume clearly describes that a neurological emergency can be treated only after a clear-cut diagnosis has been carried out, and that this task is reserved to the neurologists.
The book has also the important value to offer a complete overview on the most relevant advancement in the treatment of the neurological emergencies, contributing to the process of education of a modern neurologist that has the capacity to face the numerous and difficult problems of the diseases of the nervous system.
Contents
Foreword.- Preface.- Transie loss of consciousness.- Coma.- Delirium/Acute confusional state.- Motor and nonmotor epileptic seizures.- Headache.- Fever and neurological signs.- Acute neurological complications of oncological immunotherapy.- Acute vision disorders.- Dizziness and Vertigo.- Diagnostic algorithms for patients presenting with acute dizziness. The ATTEST method.- Focal neurological deficits.- Para- and tetraplegia in the emergency rooms and in the intensive care unit.- Head injuries.- Muscle pain, weakness and(or sensory disorders.- Movement disorders emergencies.- Respiratory emergencies in neurological diseases.- Neurological emergencies in pregnancy and puerperium.- Functional disorders in emergencies.- Neurotoxicological emergencies.- Neurological emergency services: a case for change to the model of care?.
