Description
Core Principles of Acute Neurology is a series of short volumes that handles major topics not found in sufficient detail elsewhere and provides useful context. Identifying Neuroemergencies provides practical information on how to best manage and triage patients in the first hour of admission in the Emergency Department. Physicians consider a neurologic emergency when the patient has clearly worsened and their neurologic signs have changed. Correct decisions are imperative: any type of neurocritical illness demands immediate treatment in the emergency department. Neurologist can assist further with the successful triage of the neurologic emergency and this volume in the Core Principles of Acute Neurology will serve as a handy, concise, reference to both the neurologist and the emergency physician.
Table of Contents
TABLE OF CONTENTSPrefaceIntroduction to the SeriesChapter 1: Defining NeuroemergenciesChapter 2: The Unresponsive PatientChapter 3: Major Warning Signs: Headache, Vertigo, SyncopeChapter 4: Treating Acute Neurologic Pain SyndromesChapter 5: Treating Movement Disorder EmergenciesChapter 6: Triaging Seizures and SpellsChapter 7: Triaging Traumatic Head and Spine InjuryChapter 8: Triaging Acute Ischemic and Hemorrhagic StrokeChapter 9: Triaging Acute NeuroinfectionsChapter 10: Troubleshooting: Errors and MisjudgmentsIndex
